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, as well as is the county town of the historic region of Banffshire. Banff's initial castle was built to push back Viking invaders and also a charter of 1163 AD shows that Malcolm IV was living there during that time. During this duration the community was a hectic trading centre in the "totally free hanse" of Northern Scottish burghs, in spite of not having its very own harbour until 1775. The initial documented Sheriff of Banff was Richard de Strathewan in 1264, and in 1372 Royal Burgh status 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, along with Aberdeen as well as Montrose. There was a good deal of lawlessness in seventeenth-century Scotland, and some of the worst culprits were participants of the nobility. According to documents kept by chronicler William Cramond, the tolbooth (courthouse and also jail) of Banff was, in 1628, the website of a run-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 friends and also fans after that struck Ogilvie with swords prior to chasing him into the street and completing him off with a gun shot. Banff as well as Macduff are separated by the valley of the River Deveron. This unpredictable river was lastly subjugated by the seven curved bridge completed in 1779 by John Smeaton. An earlier bridge had actually been built in 1765, but was swept away in 1768. The old ferryboat was brought back into usage, up until it was lost in a flood in 1773. A public meeting was held in 1800 and also passed a resolution for the structure of a turnpike roadway in between Turiff as well as Banff as the existing road remained in a depressing state of repair service. Later on 19th century transport improvements consisted of the building of two railway lines, from Macduff to Turiff in 1860 and also the Banff, Portsoy and Strathisla Train in 1859 which linked to the major Aberdeen to Inverness line. Throughout the 19th Century the Banff Fishery Area (making up the ports from Crovie to Sandend) was important to the herring trade, with manufacturing coming to a head in 1853 at more than sixty-thousand barrels, of which virtually thirty-four thousand were exported, nevertheless by 1912 manufacturing had declined to simply over 8 thousand barrels. Presently, the languages talked in the community and also in its location tend to be the Doric language of Scots, and English.
