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Banff's first castle was built to repel Viking invaders and a charter of 1163 AD shows that Malcolm IV was living there at that time. [4] During this period the town was a busy trading centre in the "free hanse" of Northern Scottish burghs, despite not having its own harbour until 1775.
Banff and Macduff is a community council area in the Banff and Buchan committee area of Aberdeenshire, Scotland, with a community council. [1] The community council area includes the two named towns and a rural area extending to the south west.
Cornhill (Scottish Gaelic: Cnoc an Arbhair) is a small village close to Banff, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. [1] It lies 5 miles (8.0 km) to the south of Portsoy.The village was originally a burgh of a feudal barony and is now a farming community.
Macduff (Scottish Gaelic: An Dùn) is a town in the Banff and Buchan area of Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It is situated on Banff Bay and faces the town of Banff across the estuary of the River Deveron. Macduff is a former burgh and was the last place in the United Kingdom where deep-water wooden fishing boats were built. [2]
Banffshire (/ ˈ b æ n f ʃ ər /; Scots: Coontie o Banffshire; Scottish Gaelic: Siorrachd Bhanbh) is a historic county in Scotland. The county town is Banff, although the largest settlement is Buckie to the west. The historic county ceased to be used for local government purposes in 1975.
The Banff and Buchan local government district was created on 16 May 1975 under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973, which established a two-tier structure of local government across Scotland comprising upper-tier regions and lower-tier districts. Banff and Buchan was one of five districts created within the Grampian region.
Auchterless station served the settlement and was opened in 1857 by the Banff Macduff & Turriff Junction Railway, later part of the Great North of Scotland Railway, then the LNER and finally British Railways, on the branchline from Inveramsay to Macduff. The station closed to passengers in 1951 and the line closed to goods in 1966.
Banff, Aberdeenshire, former royal burgh in Aberdeenshire (formerly Banffshire), Scotland Banff distillery, a distiller of malt whisky; Banffshire (County of Banff) a traditional county; Banffshire (UK Parliament constituency) Banff and Buchan, a modern committee area in Aberdeenshire; Lord Banff, title in the Peerage of Scotland