Grantown-on-spey
Grantown-on-Spey is a town in the Highland Council Area, historically within the area of Moray. It was founded in 1765 as a prepared settlement on a reduced plateau at Freuchie beside the river Spey at the north edge of the Cairngorm mountains, about 20 miles (32 kilometres) south-east of Inverness (35 miles or 56 kilometres by roadway). Initially called just Grantown after Sir James Grant, on Spey was included by the burgh council in 1898. The community is twinned with Notre-Dame-de-Monts in the Vendée, Pays-de-la-Loire, France. Because 2011, Grantown-on-Spey has been home to Shinty club Strathspey Camanachd.
