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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, as well as is the county town of the historical county of Banffshire. Banff's first castle was constructed to fend off Viking intruders and a charter of 1163 AD reveals that Malcolm IV was living there during that time. During this period the town was a hectic trading centre in the "totally free hanse" of Northern Scottish burghs, regardless of not having its very own harbour until 1775. The first documented Sheriff of Banff was Richard de Strathewan in 1264, and in 1372 Royal Burgh standing was given by King Robert II. By the 15th century Banff was among 3 primary communities exporting salmon to the continent of Europe, in addition to Aberdeen and also Montrose. There was a lot of lawlessness in seventeenth-century Scotland, as well as several of the most awful culprits were members 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 an altercation between Lord Banff as well as James Ogilvie, his loved one. Reportedly, he struck James Ogilvie upon the head with a baton throughout a court hearing. Twenty of his friends and fans after that struck 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 divided by the valley of the River Deveron. This unpredictable river was finally subjugated by the seven curved bridge finished in 1779 by John Smeaton. An earlier bridge had been built in 1765, however was swept away in 1768. The old ferry was restored into use, till it was shed in a flooding in 1773. A public conference was held in 1800 and passed a resolution for the structure of a turnpike road in between Turiff and also Banff as the existing road was in an unfortunate state of fixing. Later 19th century transport improvements included the structure of 2 railway lines, from Macduff to Turiff in 1860 and the Banff, Portsoy as well as Strathisla Railway in 1859 which linked to the main Aberdeen to Inverness line. Throughout the 19th Century the Banff Fishery District (making up the ports from Crovie to Sandend) was essential to the herring trade, with production peaking in 1853 at greater than sixty-thousand barrels, of which almost thirty-four thousand were exported, nevertheless by 1912 manufacturing had declined to just over eight thousand barrels. Presently, the languages spoken in the town as well as in its vicinity tend to be the Doric language of Scots, as well as English.