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 historical area of Banffshire. Banff's very first castle was developed to drive away Viking invaders and also a charter of 1163 AD shows that Malcolm IV was living there at that time. Throughout this period the community was a busy trading centre in the "cost-free hanse" of Northern Scottish burghs, regardless of not having its very own harbour up until 1775. The first recorded Sheriff of Banff was Richard de Strathewan in 1264, and in 1372 Royal Burgh status was conferred by King Robert II. By the 15th century Banff was just one of 3 primary towns exporting salmon to the continent of Europe, together with Aberdeen as well as Montrose. There was a large amount of lawlessness in seventeenth-century Scotland, and some of the most awful offenders were members of the nobility. According to documents kept by chronicler William Cramond, the tolbooth (court house and prison) of Banff was, in 1628, the site of a run-in in between Lord Banff as well as James Ogilvie, his relative. Supposedly, he struck James Ogilvie upon the head with a baton during a court hearing. Twenty of his pals and also followers after that assaulted Ogilvie with swords before chasing him into the street as well as completing him off with a gun shot. Banff as well as Macduff are separated by the valley of the River Deveron. This uncertain river was finally tamed by the 7 arched bridge completed in 1779 by John Smeaton. An earlier bridge had actually been built in 1765, yet was swept away in 1768. The old ferry was revived right into usage, 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 roadway in between Turiff and also Banff as the existing road was in an unfortunate state of fixing. Later on 19th century transportation enhancements consisted of the structure of two train lines, from Macduff to Turiff in 1860 as well as the Banff, Portsoy and also Strathisla Train in 1859 which attached to the primary Aberdeen to Inverness line. Throughout the 19th Century the Banff Fishery District (consisting of the ports from Crovie to Sandend) was very important to the herring trade, with manufacturing 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 actually decreased to just over eight thousand barrels. Currently, the languages talked in the community as well as in its vicinity tend to be the Doric dialect of Scots, as well as English.
