Port Benedict

Port Benedict (Scottish Gaelic: Port Beannachd) is a major city located in Lavendershire, commonly referred to as the Second Biggest City in Neutralston, it was an 18th century British settlement established at the Eastern tip of what would become Lavendershire that served as the seat of government and defacto capital of British Neutralston. The initial trading port gave raise to the settlement around Fort Victoria, the fort was situated on the Eastern Tip of Lavendershire and was meant to defend spice-trade ships of the East India Company coming in from India near the Irish Sea. In 1760 it became a crown colony of the British Empire and was designated the main region of British Neutralston.
Before British Occupation, the area Port Benedict was founded in was mainly argicultural and had a peak population of around 70 People. (estimated from population records from the 1660s). By 1760 the population was around 3000 people, the majority of the population were scottish people who were enticed by the British Government to resettle within the farmlands of British Neutralston, by 1775 the population had sky-rocketed to 10,000 people, 5000 of whom lived within Port Benedict itself with the remainder of people living in surrounding villages.In the 1900s, the city 's government would be merged into the much larger Lavendershire County council as part of reforms within the Kingdom of Neutralston.