Fochabers is a village in the Parish of Bellie, in Moray, Scotland, 10 miles (16 kilometres) eastern of the cathedral city of Elgin as well as situated on the eastern financial institution of the River Spey. 1,728 individuals stay in the town, which enjoys a rich musical and also social background. The village is also residence to Baxters, the family-run producer of foodstuffs. The village owes its presence to Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon (1743-1827). Throughout the late-eighteenth century, throughout the Scottish Enlightenment, it was classy for landowners to located brand-new towns and also villages; these can be recognised all over Scotland, due to the fact that unlike their precursors they all have right, large roads in mostly rectangular designs, a main square, as well as the houses constructed with their main altitudes alongside the street. The tenants gained from even more spacious homes, as well as the Duke, it needs to be claimed, benefited from not having the hoi polloi living in hovels exactly on the doorstep of Gordon Castle. Fochabers was founded in 1776, as well as is among the most effective instances of an intended village. It is a sanctuary, with most of the structures in the High Street detailed 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 noteworthy artisans, and the Episcopalian church, Gordon Chapel, which flaunts the biggest collection of Pre-Raphaelite stained glass in Scotland. Electrical energy was brought to the town in 1906 by Charles Gordon-Lennox, 7th Duke of Richmond supplied from a tiny hydro-electric producing terminal built in 1905 in the Quarters area on the financial institutions of the fast-flowing Spey. Temporarily in the mid-twentieth century, Fochabers was the house of 3 duchesses - Hilda, Duchess of Richmond as well as Gordon; Ivy, Duchess of Portland as well as Helen, Duchess of Northumberland. Between 1893 and also 1966 the village had a railway station, Fochabers Town, although after 1931 this was open only to products. For nearly three decades, the people of Fochabers campaigned for a bypass, as the village is situated on the A96, the only direct route from Aberdeen to Inverness, and as a result suffers from significant web traffic troubles. Building and construction deal with a bypass for Fochabers and also the adjoining town of Mosstodloch started on 2 February 2010 and was completed in January 2012, at an expense of £31,500,000. The task was dramatically delayed as a result of clash relating to the recommended path, and also discovery of a Neolithic settlement on the site of the bypass.