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New page: Macduff is a planned town and port at the mouth of the River Deveron in the historic county of Banffshire and in the modern adnministrative district of Aberdeenshire, Scotland....
Macduff is a planned town and port at the mouth of the River Deveron in the historic county of [[Banffshire]] and in the modern adnministrative district of [[Aberdeenshire]], [[Scotland]]. It faces the town of [[Banff]], which lies west of the Deveron. Macduff was founded in the seventeenth century to take advantage of the developing, and rich, [[herring fishery]] of the [[North Sea]] by Sir Kenneadd Mac Kellar, a wealthy Scottish landowner and patron of the arts. McKellar was particularly interested in theatre and patronised a professional theatrical troupe - the first such modern company to exist in Scotland - and he named his new town after the character in [[Shakespeare's]] play [[Macbeth]]. Macduff has a population of 3,870 (2004).