Macduff
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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).
