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 push back Viking invaders as well as a charter of 1163 AD shows that Malcolm IV was living there back then. Throughout this duration the town was an active trading centre in the "cost-free hanse" of Northern Scottish burghs, regardless of not having its own harbour up until 1775. The first recorded 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 one of 3 primary towns exporting salmon to the continent of Europe, together with Aberdeen and also Montrose. There was a great deal of lawlessness in seventeenth-century Scotland, as well as a few of the most awful culprits were participants of the nobility. According to documents kept by chronicler William Cramond, the tolbooth (courthouse and also prison) of Banff was, in 1628, the site of an altercation between Lord Banff and James Ogilvie, his loved one. Reportedly, he struck James Ogilvie upon the head with a baton throughout a court hearing. Twenty of his buddies and also followers after that attacked Ogilvie with swords before chasing him into the street as well as finishing him off with a handgun shot. Banff and also Macduff are divided by the valley of the River Deveron. This unpredictable river was ultimately tamed by the seven curved bridge completed in 1779 by John Smeaton. An earlier bridge had actually been constructed in 1765, however was swept away in 1768. The old ferryboat was restored into usage, until it was shed in a flood in 1773. A public conference was kept in 1800 and also passed a resolution for the building of a turnpike roadway in between Turiff and Banff as the existing road was in a sad state of fixing. Later 19th century transportation improvements included the structure of 2 railway lines, from Macduff to Turiff in 1860 and also the Banff, Portsoy and Strathisla Train in 1859 which connected to the main Aberdeen to Inverness line. During the 19th Century the Banff Fishery Area (making up the ports from Crovie to Sandend) was very important to the herring profession, with production coming to a head in 1853 at greater than sixty-thousand barrels, of which virtually thirty-four thousand were exported, however by 1912 manufacturing had declined to just over eight thousand barrels. Currently, the languages talked in the community and also in its location tend to be the Doric language of Scots, as well as English.
