Fochabers is a town in the Parish of Bellie, in Moray, Scotland, 10 miles (16 kilometres) east of the cathedral city of Elgin and also situated on the east bank of the River Spey. 1,728 individuals stay in the village, which takes pleasure in an abundant music and social history. The village is likewise residence to Baxters, the family-run producer of foods items. The town owes its presence to Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon (1743-1827). Throughout the late-eighteenth century, throughout the Scottish Enlightenment, it was trendy for landowners to discovered brand-new communities as well as villages; these can be recognised all over Scotland, since unlike their predecessors they all have straight, wide roads in primarily rectangular layouts, a main square, and also the houses built with their main elevations parallel to the street. The renters gained from more spacious homes, and also the Battle each other, it needs to be claimed, taken advantage of not having the hoi polloi living in hovels precisely the doorstep of Gordon Castle. Fochabers was founded in 1776, and also is one of the best instances of a prepared town. It is a conservation area, with a lot of the buildings in the High Street detailed as being of historic or building passion, as is Bellie Kirk, the Roman Catholic church St. Mary's Fochabers, which houses works by significant artisans, as well as the Episcopalian church, Gordon Chapel, which flaunts the largest collection of Pre-Raphaelite discolored glass in Scotland. Power was given the town in 1906 by Charles Gordon-Lennox, 7th Duke of Richmond supplied from a little hydro-electric creating terminal constructed in 1905 in the Quarters district on the banks of the fast-flowing Spey. Temporarily in the mid-twentieth century, Fochabers was the house of three duchesses - Hilda, Duchess of Richmond and Gordon; Ivy, Duchess of Portland and Helen, Duchess of Northumberland. Between 1893 as well as 1966 the village had a train terminal, Fochabers Town, although after 1931 this was open just to products. For almost 3 decades, the people of Fochabers advocated a bypass, as the town is situated on the A96, the only direct route from Aberdeen to Inverness, as well as as a result suffers from major traffic troubles. Building and construction service a bypass for Fochabers and also the neighbouring town of Mosstodloch began on 2 February 2010 as well as was finished in January 2012, at a cost of £31,500,000. The task was substantially delayed due to conflict regarding the recommended path, and also discovery of a Neolithic settlement on the site of the bypass.