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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 first castle was constructed to push back Viking intruders and a charter of 1163 AD shows that Malcolm IV was living there at that time. Throughout this period the community was an active trading centre in the "totally free hanse" of Northern Scottish burghs, despite not having its own harbour till 1775. The very first recorded 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 just one of three principal communities exporting salmon to the continent of Europe, along with Aberdeen and Montrose. There was a great deal of lawlessness in seventeenth-century Scotland, as well as several of the worst culprits were participants of the nobility. According to records maintained by chronicler William Cramond, the tolbooth (courthouse and also prison) of Banff was, in 1628, the site of a run-in between Lord Banff as well as James Ogilvie, his loved one. Reportedly, he struck James Ogilvie upon the head with a baton throughout a court hearing. Twenty of his good friends as well as fans then assaulted Ogilvie with swords before chasing him right into the street and completing him off with a gun shot. Banff and also Macduff are separated by the valley of the River Deveron. This uncertain river was lastly tamed by the 7 arched bridge finished in 1779 by John Smeaton. An earlier bridge had actually been integrated in 1765, but was swept away in 1768. The old ferryboat was revived into use, until it was lost in a flood 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 road was in a sad state of repair work. Later on 19th century transportation improvements included the building of two railway lines, from Macduff to Turiff in 1860 and also the Banff, Portsoy and Strathisla Railway in 1859 which linked to the major Aberdeen to Inverness line. Throughout the 19th Century the Banff Fishery Area (making up the ports from Crovie to Sandend) was important to the herring trade, with production coming to a head in 1853 at greater than sixty-thousand barrels, of which nearly thirty-four thousand were exported, however by 1912 manufacturing had decreased to simply over eight thousand barrels. Currently, the languages spoken in the town and also in its area often tend to be the Doric language of Scots, as well as English.
