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 is the county town of the historic county of Banffshire. Banff's initial castle was developed to drive away Viking intruders and a charter of 1163 AD shows that Malcolm IV was living there back then. During this period the community was a busy trading centre in the "complimentary hanse" of Northern Scottish burghs, in spite of not having its very own harbour up until 1775. The initial documented Sheriff of Banff was Richard de Strathewan in 1264, and also in 1372 Royal Burgh status was provided by King Robert II. By the 15th century Banff was just one of three principal communities exporting salmon to the continent of Europe, together with Aberdeen and also Montrose. There was a lot of lawlessness in seventeenth-century Scotland, and some of the most awful transgressors were participants of the nobility. According to records kept by chronicler William Cramond, the tolbooth (court house and also jail) of Banff was, in 1628, the website of an altercation in 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 followers then struck Ogilvie with swords prior to chasing him into the street as well as completing him off with a pistol shot. Banff as well as Macduff are divided by the valley of the River Deveron. This unforeseeable river was ultimately subjugated by the seven arched bridge completed in 1779 by John Smeaton. An earlier bridge had actually been integrated in 1765, however was swept away in 1768. The old ferryboat was revived into use, till it was shed in a flood in 1773. A public meeting was held in 1800 and passed a resolution for the structure of a turnpike road between Turiff as well as Banff as the existing road was in a sad state of fixing. Later on 19th century transportation improvements included the building of 2 railway lines, from Macduff to Turiff in 1860 and the Banff, Portsoy and Strathisla Railway in 1859 which connected to the primary Aberdeen to Inverness line. During the 19th Century the Banff Fishery Area (consisting of the ports from Crovie to Sandend) was very important to the herring profession, with manufacturing coming to a head in 1853 at more than sixty-thousand barrels, of which nearly thirty-four thousand were exported, nonetheless by 1912 production had actually decreased to just over 8 thousand barrels. Currently, the languages spoken in the community and also in its location tend to be the Doric dialect of Scots, and also English.