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 repel Viking invaders 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 "free hanse" of Northern Scottish burghs, despite not having its very own harbour up until 1775. The first documented Sheriff of Banff was Richard de Strathewan in 1264, and also in 1372 Royal Burgh standing was provided by King Robert II. By the 15th century Banff was among three primary communities exporting salmon to the continent of Europe, together with Aberdeen and also Montrose. There was a large amount of lawlessness in seventeenth-century Scotland, as well as some of the worst transgressors were members of the nobility. According to records maintained by chronicler William Cramond, the tolbooth (courthouse and prison) of Banff was, in 1628, the website of an altercation in between Lord Banff and James Ogilvie, his relative. Apparently, he struck James Ogilvie upon the head with a baton throughout a court hearing. Twenty of his pals and followers after that assaulted Ogilvie with swords prior to chasing him right into the street and also 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 7 curved bridge finished in 1779 by John Smeaton. An earlier bridge had been integrated in 1765, yet was swept away in 1768. The old ferryboat was restored into use, up until it was shed in a flooding in 1773. A public meeting was kept in 1800 as well as passed a resolution for the structure of a turnpike roadway between Turiff as well as Banff as the existing roadway was in a depressing state of repair service. Later on 19th century transportation renovations included the building of 2 railway lines, from Macduff to Turiff in 1860 and also the Banff, Portsoy and also Strathisla Railway in 1859 which connected to the main 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 peaking in 1853 at greater than sixty-thousand barrels, of which nearly thirty-four thousand were exported, however by 1912 production had actually declined to just over eight thousand barrels. Presently, the languages talked in the town and also in its vicinity have a tendency to be the Doric language of Scots, and English.
