Fochabers is a town in the Parish of Bellie, in Moray, Scotland, 10 miles (16 kilometres) east of the cathedral city of Elgin and located on the eastern bank of the River Spey. 1,728 people stay in the town, which takes pleasure in a rich musical as well as cultural history. The village is also home to Baxters, the family-run manufacturer of foodstuffs. The town owes its presence to Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon (1743-1827). During the late-eighteenth century, during the Scottish Enlightenment, it was stylish for landowners to found new towns as well as towns; these can be acknowledged around Scotland, because unlike their predecessors they all have right, vast streets in generally rectangular formats, a central square, and also the houses constructed with their primary elevations parallel to the street. The renters took advantage of more large homes, and also the Duke, it needs to be stated, gained from not having the hoi polloi living in hovels precisely the front door of Gordon Castle. Fochabers was founded in 1776, and is just one of the best examples of an intended village. It is a conservation area, with most of the structures in the High Street detailed as being of historic or architectural interest, as is Bellie Kirk, the Roman Catholic church St. Mary's Fochabers, which houses works by significant artisans, and also the Episcopalian church, Gordon Chapel, which boasts the largest collection of Pre-Raphaelite stained glass in Scotland. Electrical power was offered the village in 1906 by Charles Gordon-Lennox, 7th Duke of Richmond provided from a little hydro-electric producing terminal constructed in 1905 in the Quarters area on the banks of the fast-flowing Spey. For a while in the mid-twentieth century, Fochabers was the home of three duchesses - Hilda, Duchess of Richmond and Gordon; Ivy, Duchess of Rose City as well as Helen, Duchess of Northumberland. In between 1893 and 1966 the town had a train station, Fochabers Community, although after 1931 this was open just to products. For nearly 3 years, the people of Fochabers advocated a bypass, as the village is located on the A96, the only direct route from Aberdeen to Inverness, as well as subsequently experiences severe web traffic troubles. Construction work with a bypass for Fochabers and also the adjoining town of Mosstodloch began on 2 February 2010 and was finished in January 2012, at an expense of £31,500,000. The job was dramatically postponed because of conflict pertaining to the recommended route, and also discovery of a Neolithic negotiation on the site of the bypass.