Fochabers

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Fochabers
Scottish Gaelic Fachabair
Main street of Fochabers
Main street of Fochabers
Coordinates 57 ° 37 ′  N , 3 ° 6 ′  W Coordinates: 57 ° 37 ′  N , 3 ° 6 ′  W
Fochabers (Scotland)
Fochabers
Fochabers
Residents 1728 2011 census
administration
Post town FOCHABERS
ZIP code section IV32
prefix 01343
Part of the country Scotland
Council area Moray
British Parliament Moray
Scottish Parliament Moray

Fochabers ( Gaelic : Fachabair ) is a village in the Scottish Council Area Moray . It is located on the east bank of the River Spey not far from its confluence with the Moray Firth . The city of Elgin is 13 kilometers west, Aberdeen around 80 kilometers southeast.

history

Fochabers was built as a planned settlement in 1776. Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon had it built, replacing an older settlement of the same name near Gordon Castle . This was installed in the 16th century as a burgh on a crossing of the Spey and in 1773 described as in a decaying state. A secondary school was built in Fochabers in 1846 from the estate of Alexander Milne .

In the course of the 19th century, the population fluctuated around 1200. At the time of the census in 1961, 1054 lived in Fochabers. The number subsequently increased gradually to 1535 in 1991. In 2011, 1728 people were counted.

traffic

Even when it was built, Fochabers was conveniently located on a bridge over the Spey. This now uses the A96 on its way from Inverness to Aberdeen and connects the village to the trunk road network. In Fochabers, the A98 coming from Fraserburgh joins the A96 and ends there. In the 19th century, two stations opened : One of the Highland Railway and a second of the Great North of Scotland Railway , which should serve the town. However, they were both about six kilometers outside and are no longer in operation today.

Sons and daughters of the village

Individual evidence

  1. ^ List of Gaelic expressions
  2. ↑ a b Fochabers. Moray. In: David Munro, Bruce Gittings: Scotland. An Encyclopedia of Places & Landscapes. Collins et al., Glasgow 2006, ISBN 0-00-472466-6 .
  3. ↑ Fochabers. In: Francis H. Groome: Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Survey of Scottish Topography, Statistical, Biographical and Historical. Volume 3: (Edr - Har). Thomas C. Jack, Grange Publishing Works, Edinburgh et al. 1885, pp. 32-33 .
  4. ↑ 2011 census
  5. ↑ RVJ Butt: The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, stop, platform and stopping place, past and present. Stephens, Sparkford 1995, ISBN 1-8526-0508-1 , p. 97.

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