Editing Guisborough (section)

==Etymology==
Assessing the origin of the name ''Guisborough'', [[Albert Hugh Smith]] commented that it was "difficult". From its first attestation in the [[Domesday Book]] into the 16th century, the second part sometimes derived from the originally [[Old English language|Old English]] word ''[[Ancient borough|burh]]'' ('town, fortification') and sometimes from the Old English word -''[[bourne (stream)|burn]]'' ('stream'). It seems that the settlement was simply known by both names, the -''burh''/-''borough'' forms predominate in the historical record and this survives today.

The origin of the first element is uncertain: Smith's best guess was from the [[Old Norse]] [[personal name]] ''Gígr'' in its [[genitive]] ''Gígs''. If so, ''Guisborough'' once meant "Gígr's town".<ref>A. H. Smith, ''[https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/epns/documents/north-riding-of-yorkshire.pdf The Place-Names of the North Riding of Yorkshire]'', English Place-Name Society, 5 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1928), pp. 149–150.</ref> To this day the first element has a different spelling for the town from [[Gisborough Priory]] and [[Gisborough Hall]] in the town.