Nisbet is a small village on the B6400, in Roxburghshire

Roxburghshire

Roxburghshire or the County of Roxburgh is a registration county of Scotland. It borders Dumfries to the west, Selkirk to the north-west, and Berwick to the north. To the south-east it borders Cumbria and Northumberland in England.It was named after the Royal Burgh of Roxburgh...

, along the River Teviot

River Teviot

The River Teviot, or Teviot Water, is a river of the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, and a tributary of the River Tweed.It rises in the western foothills of Comb Hill on the border of Dumfries and Galloway...

, in the Scottish Borders

Scottish Borders

The Scottish Borders is one of 32 local government council areas of Scotland. It is bordered by Dumfries and Galloway in the west, South Lanarkshire and West Lothian in the north west, City of Edinburgh, East Lothian, Midlothian to the north; and the non-metropolitan counties of Northumberland...

 area of Scotland

Scotland

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

. It is located 5.5 kilometres (3.4 mi) north of Jedburgh

Jedburgh

Jedburgh is a town and former royal burgh in the Scottish Borders and historically in Roxburghshire.-Location:Jedburgh lies on the Jed Water, a tributary of the River Teviot, it is only ten miles from the border with England and is dominated by the substantial ruins of Jedburgh Abbey...

 and 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) south of Roxburgh

Roxburgh (village)

Roxburgh is a village off the A699, by the River Teviot, near Kelso in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland.Other places nearby include Ednam, Heiton, Maxton, Morebattle, Smailholm, Sprouston and Stichill,The Borders Abbeys Way passes through the village....

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The village has several Nisbet location names: Nisbet, East Nisbet, West Nisbet, Nisbetmill, Upper Nisbet, and Upper Nisbet Moor. However, none of these are connected to the family of Nisbet of that Ilk

Clan Nesbitt

Clan Nesbitt is a Scottish clan recognised by the Lord Lyon King of Arms and first mentioned in a Scottish charter of 1139. It is a lowland family centred in Berwickshire, East Lothian, Edinburgh and Ayrshire, with a significant historical presence in Northumberland and Durham...

, who built Nisbet House

Nisbet House

Nisbet House is a 17th-century mansion in the Scottish Borders. It is located on the north side of the Blackadder Water, south of Duns, in the Merse, a low-lying part of the former county of Berwickshire. It was built in about 1630 by Sir Alexander Nisbet, ancestor of the heraldic authority...

 in Berwickshire

Berwickshire

Berwickshire or the County of Berwick is a registration county, a committee area of the Scottish Borders Council, and a lieutenancy area of Scotland, on the border with England. The town after which it is named—Berwick-upon-Tweed—was lost by Scotland to England in 1482...

. There was a Nisbet family located a short distance from this Nisbet village at Cessford Burn

Cessford Burn

Cessford Burn is a small stream which eventually runs to meet the Kale Water and then joins the River Teviot, finally entering the River Tweed at Kelso, Scotland....

 from 1665 to 1822.

The Rev. Samuel Rutherford

Samuel Rutherford

Samuel Rutherford was a Scottish Presbyterian theologian and author, and one of the Scottish Commissioners to the Westminster Assembly.-Life:...

was born in the village of Nisbet about 1600.

External links

• A Hog-backed and two-coped monuments, in Nisbet graveyard
• CANMORE/RCAHMS record for Nisbet, Old Churchyard
• SCRAN image: Steel truss bridge, Nisbet, Roxburghshire
• SCRAN image: Farm horsemen homeward bound at Nisbet Village, Roxburghshire, Scottish Borders
• http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/sct/ROX/gazetteer/O.html GENUKI: Roxburghshire Gazetteer:)
• Gazetteer for Scotland, Old County of Roxburghshire