Nesbit
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For the writer see E. Nesbit.
Nesbit township in Doddington parish, Northumberland, England was once the site of a medieval village. In maps published during the 17th to 19th centuries, the name of the settlement was variously spelled Nesbet, Nesbitt or Nesbit.
Nesbit is near the confluence of the Glen and Till rivers and the hypothesized location of one of King Arthur's battles against invading Anglo-Saxons. Latin documentation dating to 1242 lists "Dodington cum Nesebit membro suo" (Doddington with its member Nesbit) as among the holdings of Baron William de Vesci.
Documents note the existence in 1415 of a defensive tower at Nesbit belonging to Sir Thomas Grey. However, in a 1541 survey it was observed that:
- At Nesebytte (Nesebitt) there was a towre of thinheritaunce of Sir Roger Gray but yt is longe synce for laske of reparacons decayed & fallen and no fortresse there now remayneth (Long, 1967, p. 30).
Today, Nesbit is the site of a sheep farm with no visible trace of the tower or village.
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Dodds, M. H. (1935). A history of Northumberland vol 14, Newcastle upon Tyne, 178.
Hodgson, J. C. (1916). Archaeologia Aeliana 3rd Series, 3, 6.
Long, B. (1967). Castles of Northumberland. Newcastle, UK: Harold Hill.
