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 historic region of Banffshire. Banff's first castle was developed to fend off Viking invaders and a charter of 1163 AD shows that Malcolm IV was living there during that time. During this duration the community was an active trading centre in the "complimentary hanse" of Northern Scottish burghs, in spite of not having its very own harbour up until 1775. The initial recorded Sheriff of Banff was Richard de Strathewan in 1264, as well as in 1372 Royal Burgh condition was provided by King Robert II. By the 15th century Banff was one of 3 principal towns exporting salmon to the continent of Europe, along with Aberdeen and Montrose. There was a good deal of lawlessness in seventeenth-century Scotland, and also a few of the most awful offenders were members of the nobility. According to records kept by chronicler William Cramond, the tolbooth (courthouse and prison) of Banff was, in 1628, the site 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 good friends and fans then assaulted Ogilvie with swords before chasing him into the street and also completing him off with a gun shot. Banff and also Macduff are separated by the valley of the River Deveron. This uncertain river was ultimately subjugated by the 7 arched bridge finished in 1779 by John Smeaton. An earlier bridge had been integrated in 1765, yet was swept away in 1768. The old ferry was brought back into usage, till it was lost in a flood in 1773. A public conference was kept in 1800 and passed a resolution for the building of a turnpike road in between Turiff and also Banff as the existing roadway remained in a sad state of fixing. Later on 19th century transport enhancements consisted of the building of two train lines, from Macduff to Turiff in 1860 and also the Banff, Portsoy and also Strathisla Train in 1859 which connected to the main 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 manufacturing coming to a head in 1853 at more than sixty-thousand barrels, of which virtually thirty-four thousand were exported, however by 1912 manufacturing had decreased to just over 8 thousand barrels. Presently, the languages talked in the town and in its location tend to be the Doric language of Scots, and also English.
