is a small town 13 miles northwest of
York in
North Yorkshire in
England . Until its
Bypass was built, it was on the main
A1 road from
London to
Edinburgh . The A1 crosses the
River Ure there.
In
1945 the A1 bridge over the River Ure collapsed under the weight of a heavy transport vehicle carrying an 80-ton
Steel Mill Roll housing from
Sheffield to
Falkirk . That interrupted a main transport route.
Boroughbridge was a parliamentary borough from medieval times, electing two entirely under the control of the
Dukes Of Newcastle .
Augustus FitzRoy , who was later
Prime Minister as the 3rd
Duke Of Grafton , was elected MP for Boroughbridge in 1756; however, he never sat for the borough as he preferred to represent
Bury St. Edmunds where he had also been elected.
Close to Boroughbridge is the village of
Aldborough , once the site of the
Roman settlement
Isurium Brigantum(SE406664). There is a small museum.
- D Englefield, J Seaton & I White, Facts About the British Prime Ministers (London: Mansell, 1995)
- Frederic A Youngs, Jr, Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England, Volume I (London: Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1979)
