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 situated on the eastern bank of the River Spey. 1,728 people stay in the town, which appreciates a rich music as well as cultural background. The village is also home to Baxters, the family-run producer of foods items. The town owes its existence to Alexander Gordon, fourth Duke of Gordon (1743-1827). Throughout the late-eighteenth century, throughout the Scottish Knowledge, it was fashionable for landowners to located new communities and also towns; these can be identified around Scotland, since unlike their predecessors they all have right, broad roads in mostly rectangular layouts, a central square, and your homes built with their primary elevations alongside the street. The tenants gained from even more spacious homes, as well as the Duke, it needs to be stated, benefited from not having the hoi polloi living in hovels precisely the front door of Gordon Castle. Fochabers was founded in 1776, and also is just one of the most effective examples of a prepared village. It is a sanctuary, with a lot of the structures in the High Street provided as being of historical or architectural interest, as is Bellie Kirk, the Roman Catholic church St. Mary's Fochabers, which houses jobs by noteworthy craftsmen, and the Episcopalian church, Gordon Chapel, which flaunts the largest collection of Pre-Raphaelite tarnished glass in Scotland. Electrical power was brought to the town in 1906 by Charles Gordon-Lennox, 7th Duke of Richmond supplied from a tiny hydro-electric generating terminal integrated in 1905 in the Quarters district on the financial institutions of the fast-flowing Spey. Temporarily in the mid-twentieth century, Fochabers was the home of 3 duchesses - Hilda, Duchess of Richmond as well as Gordon; Ivy, Duchess of Portland and also Helen, Duchess of Northumberland. Between 1893 and also 1966 the town had a railway station, Fochabers Community, although after 1931 this was open only to freight. For nearly three years, individuals of Fochabers advocated a bypass, as the village is situated on the A96, the only direct route from Aberdeen to Inverness, and consequently deals with severe traffic troubles. Building and construction work with a bypass for Fochabers and the adjoining town of Mosstodloch started on 2 February 2010 and was completed in January 2012, at an expense of £31,500,000. The job was significantly delayed as a result of clash regarding the recommended path, as well as exploration of a Neolithic negotiation on the site of the bypass.