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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 former royal burgh, and also is the county town of the historical area of Banffshire. Banff's first castle was constructed to repel Viking invaders and a charter of 1163 AD shows that Malcolm IV was living there during that time. During this duration the community was an active trading centre in the "totally free hanse" of Northern Scottish burghs, in spite of not having its own harbour till 1775. The very first taped Sheriff of Banff was Richard de Strathewan in 1264, and in 1372 Royal Burgh condition was conferred by King Robert II. By the 15th century Banff was one of 3 primary communities exporting salmon to the continent of Europe, in addition to Aberdeen as well as Montrose. There was a large amount of lawlessness in seventeenth-century Scotland, and a few of the worst wrongdoers were participants of the nobility. According to records maintained by historian William Cramond, the tolbooth (court house as well as prison) of Banff was, in 1628, the website of a run-in between Lord Banff and also James Ogilvie, his relative. Reportedly, he struck James Ogilvie upon the head with a baton during a court hearing. Twenty of his good friends as well as followers after that struck Ogilvie with swords before chasing him into the street as well as completing him off with a pistol shot. Banff and Macduff are divided by the valley of the River Deveron. This unforeseeable river was ultimately subjugated by the seven curved bridge completed in 1779 by John Smeaton. An earlier bridge had been built in 1765, yet was swept away in 1768. The old ferryboat was revived right into usage, until it was lost in a flood in 1773. A public conference was held in 1800 and also passed a resolution for the structure of a turnpike road between Turiff and also Banff as the existing roadway was in a sad state of repair. Later 19th century transport improvements consisted of the structure of two train lines, from Macduff to Turiff in 1860 as well as the Banff, Portsoy as well as Strathisla Railway in 1859 which linked to the main Aberdeen to Inverness line. Throughout the 19th Century the Banff Fishery District (consisting of the ports from Crovie to Sandend) was essential to the herring trade, with production peaking in 1853 at greater than sixty-thousand barrels, of which almost thirty-four thousand were exported, nevertheless by 1912 production had decreased to just over eight thousand barrels. Presently, the languages spoken in the town and in its location tend to be the Doric language of Scots, and English.