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 eastern bank of the River Spey. 1,728 people stay in the town, which enjoys a rich music and also social history. The town is also home to Baxters, the family-run producer of foodstuffs. The village owes its presence to Alexander Gordon, fourth Duke of Gordon (1743-1827). During the late-eighteenth century, during the Scottish Knowledge, it was trendy for landowners to found brand-new communities and also villages; these can be acknowledged all over Scotland, because unlike their predecessors they all have directly, large roads in primarily rectangular layouts, a main square, and your homes built with their primary elevations alongside the street. The occupants benefited from even more sizable houses, and the Duke, it has to be stated, taken advantage of not having the hoi polloi living in hovels exactly on the doorstep of Gordon Castle. Fochabers was founded in 1776, and is just one of the very best instances of an intended town. It is a sanctuary, with a lot of the structures in the High Street provided as being of historic or building rate of 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 biggest collection of Pre-Raphaelite tarnished glass in Scotland. Electrical energy was given the village in 1906 by Charles Gordon-Lennox, 7th Duke of Richmond provided from a tiny hydro-electric creating terminal integrated 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 home of three duchesses - Hilda, Duchess of Richmond and also Gordon; Ivy, Duchess of Rose City and Helen, Duchess of Northumberland. Between 1893 as well as 1966 the village had a train station, Fochabers Community, although after 1931 this was open just to freight. For almost three years, the people of Fochabers advocated a bypass, as the village is positioned on the A96, the only direct route from Aberdeen to Inverness, as well as consequently struggles with major web traffic troubles. Building work on a bypass for Fochabers as well as the adjoining town of Mosstodloch started on 2 February 2010 and was completed in January 2012, at a price of £31,500,000. The job was substantially delayed as a result of conflict relating to the suggested path, as well as exploration of a Neolithic negotiation on the site of the bypass.