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, as well as is the county town of the historic county of Banffshire. Banff's very first castle was developed to repel Viking invaders and also a charter of 1163 AD shows that Malcolm IV was living there during that time. Throughout this period the community was an active trading centre in the "cost-free hanse" of Northern Scottish burghs, despite not having its very own harbour till 1775. The very first taped Sheriff of Banff was Richard de Strathewan in 1264, as well as in 1372 Royal Burgh status was conferred by King Robert II. By the 15th century Banff was among three major towns exporting salmon to the continent of Europe, in addition to Aberdeen and Montrose. There was a great deal of lawlessness in seventeenth-century Scotland, and also a few of the worst offenders were members of the nobility. According to records kept by chronicler William Cramond, the tolbooth (courthouse and prison) of Banff was, in 1628, the site of an altercation between Lord Banff and James Ogilvie, his loved one. Apparently, he struck James Ogilvie upon the head with a baton during a court hearing. Twenty of his buddies as well as followers then struck Ogilvie with swords before chasing him right into the street and also completing him off with a pistol shot. Banff and also Macduff are separated by the valley of the River Deveron. This unforeseeable river was lastly tamed by the seven curved bridge finished in 1779 by John Smeaton. An earlier bridge had been integrated in 1765, yet was swept away in 1768. The old ferry was restored into usage, until it was shed in a flooding in 1773. A public conference was kept in 1800 and also passed a resolution for the structure of a turnpike road in between Turiff and also Banff as the existing road was in a sad state of repair. Later on 19th century transportation renovations consisted of the structure of two train lines, from Macduff to Turiff in 1860 and also the Banff, Portsoy and Strathisla Train in 1859 which attached to the main Aberdeen to Inverness line. Throughout the 19th Century the Banff Fishery District (making up the ports from Crovie to Sandend) was very important to the herring profession, with production peaking in 1853 at greater than sixty-thousand barrels, of which virtually thirty-four thousand were exported, however by 1912 production had actually decreased to simply over eight thousand barrels. Currently, the languages spoken in the town and in its location tend to be the Doric language of Scots, and English.
