Grantown-on-spey
Grantown-on-Spey is a town in the Highland Council Location, traditionally within the region of Moray. It was founded in 1765 as a planned negotiation on a low plateau at Freuchie close to the river Spey at the north edge of the Cairngorm hills, about 20 miles (32 kilometres) south-east of Inverness (35 miles or 56 kilometres by road). Initially called merely Grantown after Sir James Grant, on Spey was included 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 residence to Shinty club Strathspey Camanachd.