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Forres (Gaelic:

Scottish Gaelic language

Scottish Gaelic is a member of the Goidelic languages branch of Celtic languages. This branch also includes the Irish language and Manx language languages....
Farrais), is a town and former royal burgh

Royal burgh

A royal burgh was a type of Scottish burgh which had been founded by, or subsequently granted, a royal charter. Although abolished in 1975, the term is still used in many of the former burghs....
situated in the north of Scotland

Scotland

conventional_long_name = ScotlandAlba|common_name= Scotland|image_flag = Flag of Scotland.svg|flag_width = 130px...
on the Moray

Moray

Moray is one of the 32 Council areas of Scotland of Scotland. It lies in the north-east of the country, with coastline on the Moray Firth, and borders the council areas of Aberdeenshire and Highland ....
coast, approximately 30 miles east of Inverness

Inverness

Inverness is a City status in the United Kingdom in northern Scotland. The city is the administrative centre for the Highland Council areas of Scotland, and it is promoted as the capital of the Scottish Highlands....
. Forres has been a winner of the Scotland in Bloom award on several occasions. There are many geographical and historical attractions nearby such as the River Findhorn

River Findhorn

The River Findhorn is one of the longest rivers in Scotland. Located in the north east, it flows into the Moray Firth on the north coast. It has one of the largest non-firth estuary in Scotland....
, and there are many historical artifacts and monuments within the town itself.

es is thought to be the "Varris" shown on maps by Ptolemy

Ptolemy

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Forres (Gaelic:

Scottish Gaelic language

Royal burgh

Scotland

conventional_long_name = ScotlandAlba|common_name= Scotland|image_flag = Flag of Scotland.svg|flag_width = 130px...
on the Moray

Moray

Inverness

River Findhorn

Brief history and overview

Forres is thought to be the "Varris" shown on maps by Ptolemy

Ptolemy

Claudius Ptolemaeus , known in English as Ptolemy , was a Roman Greek mathematics, Greek astronomy, geographer and astrologer. He lived in History of Roman Egypt, and was probably born there in a town in the Thebaid called Ptolemais Hermiou; he died in Alexandria around 168 AD....
almost 2,000 years ago. There was a royal castle there from at least 900 AD and in around 1140 AD it became a royal burgh. Royal burghs were founded by the Kings of Scots of the 12th century to encourage trade and economic improvement. The local abbey

Abbey

An abbey , is a Christianity monastery or convent, under the government of an Abbot or an Abbess, who serves as the spiritual father or mother of the community....
was plundered by Wolf of Badenoch.

On 23 June 1496 King James IV of Scotland

James IV of Scotland

James IV was King of Scots from 11 June 1488 to his death. He is generally regarded as the most successful of the House of Stuart monarchs of Scotland, but his reign ended with the disastrous defeat at the Battle of Flodden Field, where he became the last British monarch to be killed in battle....
issued a Royal Charter

Royal Charter

A royal charter is a charter granted by a Monarch to create institutions or other forms of incorporated bodies . In the United Kingdom legal tradition a royal charter is in the form of letters patent....
laying down the rights and privileges which the town's people are believed to have held by an earlier charter since the reign of King David I

David I of Scotland

David I or Dabhidh Mac Maol Chaluim was a 12th-century ruler who was Prince of the Cumbrians and later List of monarchs of Scotland . The youngest son of Maol Chaluim Mac Donnchaidh and Saint Margaret of Scotland, David spent most of his childhood in Scotland, but was exiled to England temporarily in 1093....
some 300 years earlier.

Forres has grown in recent years and now has over 9,000 inhabitants. Sitting between the floodplain of the River Findhorn and the wooded slopes of Cluny

Cluny Hill

Cluny Hill is a hill on south side of Forres, Scotland.At the top of Cluny Hill is Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson's Tower, built in 1806 to commemorate Admiral Lord Nelson and his victory at Battle of Trafalgar....
and Sanquhar Hills, Forres is well known for its award winning floral sculptures and is steeped in local history and traditions.

It has a number of Bars and pubs, including The Newmarket, The Red Lion, The Mosset Tavern, and The Carlton Hotel.

The town is the location of Sueno's Stone

Sueno's Stone

Sueno's Stone stands over 6.5 metres high and is a Picto-Scottish Class III standing stone on the north-easterly edge of Forres, Scotland. It is the largest such stone in the British Isles....
, an enormous carved stone, probably created by Picts

Picts

The Picts were a confederation of tribes in what was later to become eastern and northern Scotland from Roman Empire times until the 10th century....
to commemorate a battle against Norse

Norsemen

Norsemen is used to refer to the group of people as a whole who speak one of the North Germanic languages as their native language. The meaning of Norseman was "people from the North" and was applied primarily to Nordic people originating from southern and central Scandinavia....
invaders. Brodie Castle

Brodie Castle

Brodie Castle is a castle near Forres in the Moray region of Scotland.The original Z plan castle was built in 1567 by Clan Brodie but destroyed by fire in 1645 by Lewis Gordon of Clan Gordon, the 3rd Marquess of Huntly....
lies near the town.

Shakespeare's play Macbeth
Macbeth

Macbeth is a tragedy by William Shakespeare about a regicide and its aftermath. It is Shakespeare's shortest Shakespearean tragedy and is believed to have been written some time between 1603 and 1606, with 1607 being the very latest possible date....
locates Duncan's castle here. Macbeth's castle was located at Inverness.

The town has a network of footpaths that have been established and waymarked by the in recent years.

Parliamentary burgh

Forres was a parliamentary burgh, combined with Inverness

Inverness

Fortrose

Fortrose is a burgh in the Scottish Highlands, located on the Moray Firth, approximately ten kilometres north east of Inverness. The town is known for its ruined 13th century cathedral, and as the home of the Brahan Seer....
and Nairn

Nairn

Nairn is a town and former burgh in the Highland Council areas of Scotland of Scotland. It is an ancient fishing port and market town around east of Inverness....
, in the Inverness Burghs

Inverness Burghs (UK Parliament constituency)

Inverness Burghs was a district of burghs United Kingdom constituencies of the British House of Commons of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1708 to 1801 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1918, representing a seat for one Member of Parliament ....
constituency

Constituency

A constituency is any cohesive body of people bound by shared identity, goals, or loyalty. Constituency can be used to describe a business's customer base and shareholders, or a charity's donors or those it serves....
of the House of Commons

British House of Commons

The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which also comprises the British monarchy and the House of Lords ....
of the Parliament of Great Britain

Parliament of Great Britain

The Parliament of Great Britain was formed in 1707 following the ratification of the Act of Union 1707 by both the Parliament of England and Parliament of Scotland....
from 1708 to 1801 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom

Parliament of the United Kingdom

The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislature in the United Kingdom and British overseas territories....
from 1801 to 1918. The constituency was abolished in 1918 and the Forres and Nairn components were merged into the then new constituency of Moray and Nairn

Moray and Nairn (UK Parliament constituency)

Moray and Nairn was a county constituency of the British House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 to 1983.It was formed by the amalgamation of the county constituency Elginshire and Nairnshire with the parliamentary burghs of Elgin, Moray, previously part of Elgin Burghs , and Nairn and Forres, previously part of...
.

Transport

Forres is situated on the A96 trunk route connecting the cities of Aberdeen

Aberdeen

Aberdeen is Scotland's third most populous City status in the United Kingdom and one of Scotland's 32 Local government in Scotland Council areas of Scotland....
and Inverness

Inverness

Inverness is a City status in the United Kingdom in northern Scotland. The city is the administrative centre for the Highland Council areas of Scotland, and it is promoted as the capital of the Scottish Highlands....
. Due to high volumes of traffic passing through the town centre, a bypass was built in the late 1980s to reduce congestion in the town centre. The A980 connects Forres with Grantown-on-Spey

Grantown-on-Spey

Grantown-on-Spey is a town in the Highland council area in Scotland.It was founded in 1765 as a New town on a low plateau at Freuchie beside the river River Spey at the northern edge of the Cairngorms mountains, about 20 miles South East of Inverness ....
, Aviemore

Aviemore

Aviemore is a town and Tourism in Scotland resort, situated within the Cairngorms National Park in the Scottish Highlands of Scotland. It is in the Badenoch and Strathspey committee area, within the Highland council area....
and the south directly without the requirement of driving via Inverness. The B9011 connects Forres to RAF Kinloss

RAF Kinloss

RAF Kinloss is a Royal Air Force station. It is near Kinloss, on the Moray Firth in the north of Scotland. The station is home to all of the Hawker-Siddeley Nimrod fleet in the Royal Air Force....
and Findhorn Bay. Findhorn is well known for its beach, boats and is home to the Findhorn Foundation

Findhorn Foundation

The Findhorn Foundation is a Scotland charitable trust registered in 1972, formed by the spiritual community at the Findhorn Ecovillage, one of the largest of the commune in United Kingdom , has been home to thousands of residents from more than 40 countries ....
, a spiritual community.

Forres railway station

Forres railway station

Forres railway station serves the town of Forres, Moray in Scotland. The station is managed by First ScotRail and is on the Aberdeen to Inverness Line....
is situated just outside of the town and is operated by First ScotRail

First ScotRail

First ScotRail is the FirstGroup train operating company running domestic passenger trains within Scotland and the cross-border Caledonian Sleeper service to London....
. The town of Forres was once a junction in the Highland Railway

Highland Railway

The Highland Railway was one of the smaller United Kingdom railways before the Railways Act 1921; it operated north of Perth railway station, Scotland in Scotland and served the farthest north of Britain....
network, travelling through Forres was once the quickest route to reach Inverness from the south. Originally the station had three platforms - two operating in the direction of Inverness and Aberdeen and a third operating a service to Grantown-on-Spey, a service which was closed in the 1960s and now forms part of , a scenic footpath connecting the two towns.

Inverness Airport is approximately 30 minutes away by road and provides links mainly to other airports within the UK.

Education

Anderson's Primary School, High Street (State Primary School)
Applegrove Primary School, Orchard Road (State Primary School)
Pilmuir Primary School, Pilmuir Road (State Primary School)
Forres Academy, Burdsyard Road (State Secondary School)
Moray Steiner School, Drumduan House, Clovenside Road (Private School 5 to 16 year olds)

Sport

Forres has a host of various sporting activities within it including , which has held the Scottish Young Professionals championships a number of times. It also plays host to Highland League

Highland League

Highland League may refer to:* The Highland Football League which operates in the North of Scotland.* The Highland Land League which fought for tenants rights....
team, Forres Mechanics and Junior

Scottish Junior Football Association

The Scottish Junior Football Association is the governing body for the junior grade of football in Scotland. It is affiliated to the Scottish Football Association, the governing body of football in Scotland....
club Forres Thistle

Forres Thistle F.C.

Forres Thistle F.C. are a Football from Forres, Scotland. A member of the Scottish Junior Football Association, the club is currently in Scottish Junior Football North Division Two of the Scottish Junior Football Association, North Region....
.

Town twinning

Mount Dora
Mount Dora, Florida

Mount Dora is a United States city in Lake County, Florida, Florida. As of July 1, 2006, the U.S. Census Bureau estimates the Mount Dora population at 11,564....
, Florida
Florida

Florida is a U.S. state located in the Southeastern United States of the United States, bordering Alabama to the northwest and Georgia to the northeast....
Vienenburg
Vienenburg

Vienenburg is a town in the Goslar , in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated in the north of the Harz mountain range on the river Oker, approx....
, Germany
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....

External links

of the town
-- a local newspaper
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