Nisbet is a small hamlet on the B6400, in

Roxburghshire Roxburghshire or the County of Roxburgh ( gd, Siorrachd Rosbroig) is a historic county and registration county in the Southern Uplands of Scotland. It borders Dumfriesshire to the west, Selkirkshire and Midlothian to the north-west, and Berw ...

, along the River Teviot, in the

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area of

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. It is located north of

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and south of

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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, who built

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, Scottish Borders, Duns, in the Merse (Scotland), Merse, a low-lying part of the former county of Berwicksh ...

Berwickshire Berwickshire ( gd, Siorrachd Bhearaig) is a historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area in south-eastern Scotland, on the English border. Berwickshire County Council existed from 1890 until 1975, when the area became part of th ...

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

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. A site at Cessford Burn has the remains of an ancient farmstead attached to Ce ...

from 1665 to 1822. The Rev.

Samuel Rutherford Samuel Rutherford (also Rutherfurd or Rutherfoord; – 29 March 1661) was a Scottish Presbyterian pastor and theologian who wrote widely read letters, sermons, devotional and scholastic works. As a political theorist, he is known for "L ...

was born in the village of Nisbet about 1600.

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A Hog-backed and two-coped monuments, in Nisbet graveyardCANMORE/RCAHMS record for Nisbet, Old ChurchyardSCRAN image: Steel truss bridge, Nisbet, RoxburghshireSCRAN 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:)

Villages in the Scottish Borders {{Borders-geo-stub

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