Grantown-on-spey
Grantown-on-Spey is a community in the Highland Council Area, historically within the county of Moray. It was founded in 1765 as a prepared settlement on a reduced plateau at Freuchie beside the river Spey at the north side of the Cairngorm hills, regarding 20 miles (32 kilometres) south-east of Inverness (35 miles or 56 km by road). Originally called merely Grantown after Sir James Grant, on Spey was added by the burgh council in 1898. The town is twinned with Notre-Dame-de-Monts in the Vendée, Pays-de-la-Loire, France. Because 2011, Grantown-on-Spey has actually been house to Shinty club Strathspey Camanachd.