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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 historical area of Banffshire. Banff’s initial castle was constructed to fend off Viking intruders as well as a charter of 1163 AD shows that Malcolm IV was living there during that time. Throughout this period the community was a busy trading centre in the “free hanse” of Northern Scottish burghs, regardless of not having its very own harbour till 1775. The first documented Sheriff of Banff was Richard de Strathewan in 1264, and in 1372 Royal Burgh condition was given by King Robert II. By the 15th century Banff was one of 3 major towns exporting salmon to the continent of Europe, along with Aberdeen and also Montrose. There was a great deal of lawlessness in seventeenth-century Scotland, as well as several of the most awful wrongdoers were members of the nobility. According to documents maintained by historian William Cramond, the tolbooth (courthouse and also jail) of Banff was, in 1628, the site of an altercation 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 and fans after that struck Ogilvie with swords prior to chasing him right into the street and finishing him off with a pistol shot. Banff and Macduff are separated by the valley of the River Deveron. This unpredictable river was finally subjugated by the 7 curved bridge finished in 1779 by John Smeaton. An earlier bridge had actually been constructed in 1765, yet was swept away in 1768. The old ferry was brought back into usage, till it was shed in a flooding in 1773. A public conference was held in 1800 and also passed a resolution for the building of a turnpike road between Turiff and Banff as the existing road was in an unfortunate state of repair service. Later 19th century transportation improvements consisted of the building of 2 train lines, from Macduff to Turiff in 1860 and the Banff, Portsoy as well as Strathisla Railway in 1859 which connected to the primary Aberdeen to Inverness line. During the 19th Century the Banff Fishery District (making up the ports from Crovie to Sandend) was very important to the herring profession, with manufacturing peaking in 1853 at more than sixty-thousand barrels, of which nearly thirty-four thousand were exported, however by 1912 production had actually declined to simply over eight thousand barrels. Presently, the languages talked in the town and in its area tend to be the Doric language of Scots, and also English.