Banff
Banff is a town in the Banff and Buchan area of Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Banff is situated on Banff Bay and faces the town of Macduff across the estuary of the River Banff is a previous royal burgh, and is the county town of the historic area of Banffshire. Banff's very first castle was built to repel Viking invaders and also a charter of 1163 AD shows that Malcolm IV was living there back then. During this period the town was a hectic trading centre in the "complimentary hanse" of Northern Scottish burghs, in spite of not having its very own harbour till 1775. The very first recorded Sheriff of Banff was Richard de Strathewan in 1264, as well as in 1372 Royal Burgh standing was given by King Robert II. By the 15th century Banff was among 3 primary towns exporting salmon to the continent of Europe, in addition to Aberdeen and also Montrose. There was a large amount of lawlessness in seventeenth-century Scotland, as well as some of the most awful culprits were members of the nobility. According to records kept by historian William Cramond, the tolbooth (courthouse as well as prison) of Banff was, in 1628, the site of a run-in between Lord Banff and James Ogilvie, his relative. Supposedly, he struck James Ogilvie upon the head with a baton during a court hearing. Twenty of his pals and fans then assaulted Ogilvie with swords before chasing him right into the street as well as completing him off with a gun shot. Banff and also Macduff are divided by the valley of the River Deveron. This unforeseeable river was ultimately subjugated by the 7 arched bridge finished in 1779 by John Smeaton. An earlier bridge had actually been integrated in 1765, but was swept away in 1768. The old ferry was restored into usage, till it was shed in a flood in 1773. A public conference was kept in 1800 as well as passed a resolution for the building of a turnpike roadway between Turiff and Banff as the existing road was in a depressing state of repair work. Later 19th century transportation improvements consisted of the building of 2 railway lines, from Macduff to Turiff in 1860 and also the Banff, Portsoy as well as Strathisla Railway in 1859 which connected to the major Aberdeen to Inverness line. Throughout the 19th Century the Banff Fishery Area (making up the ports from Crovie to Sandend) was necessary to the herring profession, with manufacturing coming to a head in 1853 at more than sixty-thousand barrels, of which nearly thirty-four thousand were exported, nonetheless by 1912 manufacturing had actually decreased to simply over 8 thousand barrels. Presently, the languages spoken in the community as well as in its location have a tendency to be the Doric dialect of Scots, as well as English.
