Fochabers is a village in the Parish of Bellie, in Moray, Scotland, 10 miles (16 km) eastern of the cathedral city of Elgin and also located on the east financial institution of the River Spey. 1,728 people stay in the village, which delights in a rich music and cultural background. The village is likewise home to Baxters, the family-run manufacturer of foods items. The village owes its presence to Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon (1743-1827). Throughout the late-eighteenth century, throughout the Scottish Enlightenment, it was classy for landowners to located brand-new communities as well as villages; these can be identified throughout Scotland, since unlike their precursors they all have right, large streets in generally rectangle-shaped designs, a main square, and your homes developed with their major elevations alongside the street. The renters benefited from even more large houses, as well as the Duke, it has to be stated, gained from not having the hoi polloi living in hovels exactly on the front door of Gordon Castle. Fochabers was founded in 1776, and also is one of the most effective instances of an intended village. It is a conservation area, with the majority of the buildings in the High Street detailed as being of historical or building interest, as is Bellie Kirk, the Roman Catholic church St. Mary's Fochabers, which houses jobs by noteworthy artisans, and also the Episcopalian church, Gordon Chapel, which boasts the largest collection of Pre-Raphaelite tarnished glass in Scotland. Electricity was offered the town in 1906 by Charles Gordon-Lennox, 7th Duke of Richmond provided from a little hydro-electric creating station built in 1905 in the Quarters area on the financial institutions of the fast-flowing Spey. For a time in the mid-twentieth century, Fochabers was the residence of three duchesses - Hilda, Duchess of Richmond as well as Gordon; Ivy, Duchess of Portland and also Helen, Duchess of Northumberland. In between 1893 and also 1966 the village had a train station, Fochabers Town, although after 1931 this was open just to products. For virtually 3 years, the people of Fochabers advocated a bypass, as the village is situated on the A96, the only direct route from Aberdeen to Inverness, and also subsequently struggles with serious web traffic troubles. Construction work on a bypass for Fochabers as well as the adjoining town of Mosstodloch started on 2 February 2010 as well as was completed in January 2012, at an expense of £31,500,000. The project was substantially postponed due to clash pertaining to the suggested route, and discovery of a Neolithic negotiation on the site of the bypass.