Fochabers is a town in the Parish of Bellie, in Moray, Scotland, 10 miles (16 km) east of the cathedral city of Elgin and also located on the eastern financial institution of the River Spey. 1,728 individuals stay in the town, which takes pleasure in a rich musical and cultural background. The town is also home to Baxters, the family-run producer of foodstuffs. The town owes its existence to Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon (1743-1827). During the late-eighteenth century, throughout the Scottish Knowledge, it was trendy for landowners to discovered new communities and also towns; these can be acknowledged all over Scotland, because unlike their precursors they all have directly, wide streets in mostly rectangle-shaped formats, a central square, and also your homes constructed with their primary altitudes parallel to the street. The lessees took advantage of more sizable residences, as well as the Fight it out, it has to be said, 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 just one of the very best instances of a planned village. It is a sanctuary, with most of the structures in the High Street provided as being of historic or architectural rate of interest, as is Bellie Kirk, the Roman Catholic church St. Mary's Fochabers, which houses jobs by remarkable craftsmen, and also the Episcopalian church, Gordon Chapel, which flaunts the largest collection of Pre-Raphaelite stained glass in Scotland. Electrical energy was offered the town in 1906 by Charles Gordon-Lennox, 7th Duke of Richmond provided from a little hydro-electric creating terminal built in 1905 in the Quarters area on the financial institutions of the fast-flowing Spey. For a while in the mid-twentieth century, Fochabers was the residence of three duchesses - Hilda, Duchess of Richmond and also Gordon; Ivy, Duchess of Portland as well as Helen, Duchess of Northumberland. In between 1893 as well as 1966 the town had a railway station, Fochabers Community, although after 1931 this was open only to freight. For nearly three years, the people of Fochabers campaigned for a bypass, as the village is located on the A96, the only direct route from Aberdeen to Inverness, and also consequently experiences serious traffic issues. Building and construction work with a bypass for Fochabers as well as the neighbouring village of Mosstodloch began on 2 February 2010 and was completed in January 2012, at an expense of £31,500,000. The task was significantly delayed as a result of conflict regarding the suggested path, as well as exploration of a Neolithic negotiation on the site of the bypass.