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 historical area of Banffshire. Banff's very first castle was built to fend off Viking intruders as well as a charter of 1163 AD shows that Malcolm IV was living there back then. Throughout this duration the community was a hectic trading centre in the "totally free hanse" of Northern Scottish burghs, regardless of not having its own harbour up until 1775. The very first taped Sheriff of Banff was Richard de Strathewan in 1264, and in 1372 Royal Burgh standing was conferred by King Robert II. By the 15th century Banff was one of three major towns exporting salmon to the continent of Europe, in addition to Aberdeen and also Montrose. There was a great deal of lawlessness in seventeenth-century Scotland, and also several of the worst culprits were participants of the nobility. According to documents kept by chronicler William Cramond, the tolbooth (court house and jail) of Banff was, in 1628, the site of an altercation in between Lord Banff and James Ogilvie, his loved one. Reportedly, he struck James Ogilvie upon the head with a baton during a court hearing. Twenty of his friends and fans after that attacked Ogilvie with swords before chasing him into the street and finishing him off with a gun shot. Banff and also Macduff are divided by the valley of the River Deveron. This unforeseeable river was lastly tamed by the seven curved bridge completed in 1779 by John Smeaton. An earlier bridge had actually been integrated in 1765, but was swept away in 1768. The old ferry was revived into use, until it was lost in a flooding in 1773. A public meeting was kept in 1800 and also passed a resolution for the structure of a turnpike roadway in between Turiff as well as Banff as the existing roadway was in a sad state of fixing. Later 19th century transport renovations consisted of the structure of 2 railway lines, from Macduff to Turiff in 1860 as well as the Banff, Portsoy as well as Strathisla Railway in 1859 which attached to the major Aberdeen to Inverness line. Throughout the 19th Century the Banff Fishery Area (consisting of the ports from Crovie to Sandend) was necessary to the herring profession, with manufacturing peaking in 1853 at more than sixty-thousand barrels, of which almost thirty-four thousand were exported, however by 1912 manufacturing had actually declined to simply over 8 thousand barrels. Presently, the languages spoken in the community and also in its location have a tendency to be the Doric dialect of Scots, and English.
