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 also is the county town of the historic area of Banffshire. Banff's very first castle was constructed to ward off Viking invaders and a charter of 1163 AD shows that Malcolm IV was living there back then. During this duration the community was a busy trading centre in the "cost-free hanse" of Northern Scottish burghs, despite not having its very own harbour till 1775. The initial documented 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 among 3 principal towns exporting salmon to the continent of Europe, together with Aberdeen and Montrose. There was a good deal of lawlessness in seventeenth-century Scotland, and also some of the most awful wrongdoers were participants of the nobility. According to records kept by chronicler William Cramond, the tolbooth (court house and jail) of Banff was, in 1628, the site 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 friends and followers after that struck Ogilvie with swords prior to chasing him into the street and completing him off with a handgun shot. Banff and Macduff are separated by the valley of the River Deveron. This uncertain river was finally subjugated by the 7 arched bridge finished in 1779 by John Smeaton. An earlier bridge had been integrated in 1765, but was swept away in 1768. The old ferry was brought back into use, till it was shed in a flood in 1773. A public meeting was kept in 1800 and also passed a resolution for the building of a turnpike roadway between Turiff as well as Banff as the existing roadway was in a depressing state of fixing. Later 19th century transportation enhancements included the building of two train lines, from Macduff to Turiff in 1860 and the Banff, Portsoy and also Strathisla Railway in 1859 which linked to the main Aberdeen to Inverness line. During the 19th Century the Banff Fishery District (consisting of the ports from Crovie to Sandend) was essential to the herring profession, with manufacturing peaking in 1853 at greater than sixty-thousand barrels, of which virtually thirty-four thousand were exported, however by 1912 production had actually decreased to just over 8 thousand barrels. Currently, the languages spoken in the community as well as in its vicinity have a tendency to be the Doric dialect of Scots, and English.
