Forres

Forres, a royal burgh of Elginshire, 5 miles S. of Findhorn village on the Moray Firth, and 25 ENE. of Inverness, with which and Nairn and Fortrose it returns a member to parliament. On its Castle Hill, a royal residence from 1189 to 1371, stands an obelisk (1857), 65 feet high, to the Crimean hero, Dr Thomson of Cromarty; whilst on the wooded Cluny Hill are a hydropathic establishment, and the Nelson tower (1806), 70 feet high. Sueno's Stone is a remarkable sculptured monolith, ascribed by Skene to the year 900; the Witch's Stone recalls Macbeth's meeting with the weird sisters near Forres. Public buildings are the town-house, Falconer museum, mechanics' institute, and Anderson's Institution. Pop. (1851) 3468; (1881) 4030; (1891) 3971.