Edgerston, a quoad sacra parish on the southern border of Roxburghshire, 7 ¼ miles SSE of its post-town and station, Jedburgh. Comprising the detached sections of Jedburgh parish, with portions of Oxnam and Southdean, it is in the presbytery of Jedburgh and synod of Merse and Teviotdale; the minister's stipend is £120. The church was built in 1838, and contains 200 sittings. Edgerston House here, near the left bank of an affluent of Jed Water, is the seat of William Alexander Oliver-Rutherfurd, Esq. (b. 1818; suc. 1879), who owns 7703 acres in the shire, valued at £3463 per annum. A public school, with accommodation for 60 children, had (1880) an average attendance of 61, and a grant of £62, 11s. Pop. (1861) 359, (1871) 365, (1881) 358.—Ord. Sur., sh. 17, 1864.

(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)