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, as well as is the county town of the historic area of Banffshire. Banff's very first castle was constructed to push back Viking intruders as well as a charter of 1163 AD reveals that Malcolm IV was living there at that time. During this period the community was a busy trading centre in the "free hanse" of Northern Scottish burghs, regardless of not having its very own harbour up until 1775. The first taped 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 3 major towns exporting salmon to the continent of Europe, along with Aberdeen and also Montrose. There was a large amount of lawlessness in seventeenth-century Scotland, and also a few of the most awful culprits were members of the nobility. According to documents kept by historian William Cramond, the tolbooth (courthouse as well as jail) of Banff was, in 1628, the site of an altercation between Lord Banff and also James Ogilvie, his family member. Reportedly, he struck James Ogilvie upon the head with a baton during a court hearing. Twenty of his buddies and fans then attacked Ogilvie with swords before chasing him into the street and also finishing him off with a handgun shot. Banff and Macduff are divided by the valley of the River Deveron. This uncertain river was ultimately tamed by the seven arched bridge completed in 1779 by John Smeaton. An earlier bridge had actually been constructed in 1765, yet was swept away in 1768. The old ferryboat was restored right into usage, till it was shed in a flooding in 1773. A public meeting was held in 1800 and passed a resolution for the structure of a turnpike road in between Turiff and also Banff as the existing roadway remained in an unfortunate state of fixing. Later on 19th century transport renovations included the building of 2 train lines, from Macduff to Turiff in 1860 as well as the Banff, Portsoy and Strathisla Railway in 1859 which linked to the main Aberdeen to Inverness line. Throughout the 19th Century the Banff Fishery District (comprising the ports from Crovie to Sandend) was necessary to the herring trade, with manufacturing coming to a head in 1853 at more than sixty-thousand barrels, of which almost thirty-four thousand were exported, nonetheless by 1912 production had actually declined to simply over 8 thousand barrels. Presently, the languages spoken in the town as well as in its location often tend to be the Doric dialect of Scots, and English.
