14 Jul
Conservatory | Solid Roof
Banff - AB45
Enquiry from: John C
Start Date: Immediate
conservatory at back of the house. directly from the main sitting room. are you the property owner: owner of the property
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 region of Banffshire. Banff's first castle was built to fend off Viking intruders as well as a charter of 1163 AD shows that Malcolm IV was living there at that time. Throughout this duration the town was a busy trading centre in the "free hanse" of Northern Scottish burghs, in spite of not having its own harbour up until 1775. The initial recorded Sheriff of Banff was Richard de Strathewan in 1264, as well as in 1372 Royal Burgh standing was conferred by King Robert II. By the 15th century Banff was just one of three primary towns exporting salmon to the continent of Europe, together with Aberdeen and Montrose. There was a great deal of lawlessness in seventeenth-century Scotland, as well as some of the worst transgressors were members of the nobility. According to documents kept by chronicler William Cramond, the tolbooth (courthouse and also prison) of Banff was, in 1628, the website of a run-in in between Lord Banff as well as James Ogilvie, his family member. Supposedly, he struck James Ogilvie upon the head with a baton during a court hearing. Twenty of his close friends and also followers after that attacked Ogilvie with swords prior to chasing him into the street as well as finishing him off with a gun shot. Banff and also Macduff are separated by the valley of the River Deveron. This unpredictable river was lastly subjugated by the 7 arched bridge completed in 1779 by John Smeaton. An earlier bridge had actually been built in 1765, however was swept away in 1768. The old ferryboat was revived into usage, up until it was shed in a flood in 1773. A public conference was held in 1800 and passed a resolution for the building of a turnpike roadway in between Turiff and also Banff as the existing road remained in a depressing state of fixing. Later 19th century transport enhancements included the building of two railway lines, from Macduff to Turiff in 1860 and also the Banff, Portsoy and 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 very important to the herring trade, with production peaking in 1853 at more than sixty-thousand barrels, of which almost thirty-four thousand were exported, however by 1912 manufacturing had actually declined to just over eight thousand barrels. Presently, the languages talked in the community and in its area tend to be the Doric language of Scots, and English.
