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Banff - AB45
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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 historical region of Banffshire. Banff's first castle was constructed to ward off Viking intruders as well as a charter of 1163 AD shows that Malcolm IV was living there back then. Throughout this duration the town was an active trading centre in the "totally free hanse" of Northern Scottish burghs, in spite of not having its very own harbour up until 1775. The initial documented Sheriff of Banff was Richard de Strathewan in 1264, and also in 1372 Royal Burgh condition was given by King Robert II. By the 15th century Banff was just one of three principal towns exporting salmon to the continent of Europe, in addition to Aberdeen and Montrose. There was a lot of lawlessness in seventeenth-century Scotland, and some of the most awful culprits were participants of the nobility. According to records maintained by historian William Cramond, the tolbooth (courthouse and prison) of Banff was, in 1628, the website of an altercation between Lord Banff and also James Ogilvie, his family member. Supposedly, he struck James Ogilvie upon the head with a baton throughout a court hearing. Twenty of his buddies as well as fans then assaulted Ogilvie with swords prior to chasing him right into the street and also completing him off with a gun shot. Banff and also Macduff are divided by the valley of the River Deveron. This unforeseeable river was lastly subjugated by the seven arched bridge finished in 1779 by John Smeaton. An earlier bridge had actually been built in 1765, but was swept away in 1768. The old ferryboat was restored right into use, up until it was shed in a flood in 1773. A public meeting was held in 1800 and passed a resolution for the structure of a turnpike road between Turiff and Banff as the existing road remained in a depressing state of repair. Later on 19th century transportation renovations consisted of the structure of 2 railway lines, from Macduff to Turiff in 1860 and the Banff, Portsoy and also Strathisla Train in 1859 which connected to the primary Aberdeen to Inverness line. Throughout the 19th Century the Banff Fishery Area (comprising the ports from Crovie to Sandend) was important to the herring profession, with production coming to a head in 1853 at greater than sixty-thousand barrels, of which almost thirty-four thousand were exported, nevertheless by 1912 manufacturing had declined to simply over eight thousand barrels. Currently, the languages talked in the town and in its vicinity tend to be the Doric language of Scots, and English.
