Grantown-on-spey
Grantown-on-Spey is a community in the Highland Council Area, historically within the region of Moray. It was founded in 1765 as a planned negotiation on a low plateau at Freuchie beside the river Spey at the north edge of the Cairngorm mountains, concerning 20 miles (32 kilometres) south-east of Inverness (35 miles or 56 km by roadway). Initially 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. Considering that 2011, Grantown-on-Spey has actually been residence to Shinty club Strathspey Camanachd.