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 former royal burgh, and also is the county town of the historical area of Banffshire. Banff's initial castle was constructed to drive away Viking invaders and also a charter of 1163 AD reveals that Malcolm IV was living there at that time. During this period the community was an active trading centre in the "complimentary hanse" of Northern Scottish burghs, despite not having its own harbour till 1775. The very first taped 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 one of 3 principal communities exporting salmon to the continent of Europe, together with Aberdeen and Montrose. There was a lot of lawlessness in seventeenth-century Scotland, and several of the worst wrongdoers were participants of the nobility. According to documents maintained by chronicler William Cramond, the tolbooth (courthouse and also prison) of Banff was, in 1628, the website of an altercation in between Lord Banff and also James Ogilvie, his relative. Supposedly, he struck James Ogilvie upon the head with a baton throughout a court hearing. Twenty of his pals and also followers after that attacked Ogilvie with swords before chasing him right into the street and finishing him off with a handgun shot. Banff and Macduff are divided by the valley of the River Deveron. This unpredictable river was lastly tamed by the 7 curved bridge completed in 1779 by John Smeaton. An earlier bridge had actually been constructed in 1765, yet was swept away in 1768. The old ferryboat was restored into use, up until it was shed in a flooding in 1773. A public meeting was held in 1800 as well as passed a resolution for the structure of a turnpike roadway between Turiff and also Banff as the existing roadway was in an unfortunate state of repair. Later on 19th century transportation enhancements consisted of the structure of 2 train lines, from Macduff to Turiff in 1860 and the Banff, Portsoy and also Strathisla Train in 1859 which connected to the major Aberdeen to Inverness line. During the 19th Century the Banff Fishery District (consisting of the ports from Crovie to Sandend) was essential to the herring profession, with manufacturing coming to a head in 1853 at greater than sixty-thousand barrels, of which almost thirty-four thousand were exported, nevertheless by 1912 production had declined to simply over eight thousand barrels. Currently, the languages talked in the town and in its location often tend to be the Doric dialect of Scots, and also English.
