Borowy Młyn, Bytów County

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| image_caption = Holy Spirit church in Borowy Młyn

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| subdivision_type1 = Voivodeship

| subdivision_name1 = Pomeranian

| subdivision_type2 = County

| subdivision_name2 = Bytów

| subdivision_type3 = Gmina

| subdivision_name3 = Lipnica

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| timezone = CET

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Borowy Młyn {{IPAc-pl|b|o|'|r|o|w|y|-|'|m|ł|y|n}} is a village in Gmina Lipnica, Bytów County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately {{convert|15|km|mi|0}} south-west of Bytów and {{convert|60|km|mi|0|abbr=on}} south-west of Gdańsk (capital city of the Pomeranian Voivodeship). It is located within the ethnocultural region of Kashubia in the historic region of Pomerania.

History

File:Borowy Młyn - Leśna Strażnica Tradycji i Patriotyzmu.jpg

Borowy Młyn was a royal village of the Polish Crown, administratively located in the Człuchów County in the Pomeranian Voivodeship.Marian Biskup, Andrzej Tomczak (1955) Mapy województwa pomorskiego w drugiej połowie XVI w., Toruń, p. 81 (in Polish)

During the German occupation of Poland (World War II), several inhabitants of the village were among over 450 Poles massacred by the Germans in the Igielska Valley near Chojnice in October and November 1939 (see Intelligenzaktion).Maria Wardzyńska (2009) Był rok 1939. Operacja niemieckiej policji bezpieczeństwa w Polsce. Intelligenzaktion, IPN, Warsaw, p. 152 (in Polish)

From 1975 to 1998 the village was in Słupsk Voivodeship.

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