Banff Harbor

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Banff Harbor

The Banff Harbor is a port facility in the Scottish town of Banff in the Council area Aberdeenshire . In 1972 the building was included in the Scottish monument lists in the highest monument category A.

history

A port in Banff was already recorded in Blaeus Atlas Maior and in the maps of Adairs and Roys in the 17th and 18th centuries. This was located a short distance south in the Deveron estuary . After the course of the river in the sandy, difficult-to-navigate estuary had shifted, with new sandbanks also appearing, the call for a new port became loud. In 1701 the imminent silting up of the existing port was pointed out. The erection of a wall on the east bank, through which a faster current with less sand deposition should be generated, also failed to achieve its purpose. The construction of a second port may have started in the first half of the 17th century, but was not initially completed. According to records, Banff owned two ports in 1769, but they were unsuitable for larger ships.

Harbor exit with the small pier fire

The important British engineer John Smeaton was won over to build Banff Harbor . Smeaton used the position of the newer of the two ports. The foundation stone was laid on April 11, 1770. Smeaton billed £ 24 for overseeing the work completed in 1775 and travel expenses. From 1818 the facility was substantially expanded. The expansion planned by Thomas Telford fetched £ 20,000. The prosperous herring fishery in the middle of the century resulted in further modernizations. Around 1890 the harbor received a small pier fire . In the course of the 20th century a pillbox was built at the harbor.

description

The harbor is located on the left bank of the Deveron directly at the mouth of the Moray Firth . On the opposite bank is the small town of Macduff , which has its own port. Harbor walls delimit the roughly triangular harbor basin, which is divided into three basins by two straight piers . The masonry consists of roughly hewn blocks quarried stone with some recent concrete work. The camouflaged pillbox, to which the monument protection explicitly extends, is located in a boundary wall on the west side. She has a room with two loopholes . Your narrow entrance is blocked today.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  2. ↑ a b Entry on Banff Harbor  in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)
  3. ↑ Entry on Molenfeuer at Banff Harbor  in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)
  4. ↑ Entry on Pillbox at Banff Harbor  in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)

Web links

Commons : Banff Harbor  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 57 ° 40 ′ 13.1 ″  N , 2 ° 31 ′ 21.3 ″  W.