Grantown-on-spey
Grantown-on-Spey is a community in the Highland Council Location, historically within the region of Moray. It was founded in 1765 as a planned negotiation on a reduced plateau at Freuchie next to the river Spey at the northern edge of the Cairngorm hills, concerning 20 miles (32 km) south-east of Inverness (35 miles or 56 kilometres by road). Initially called merely Grantown after Sir James Grant, on Spey was added by the burgh council in 1898. The community is twinned with Notre-Dame-de-Monts in the Vendée, Pays-de-la-Loire, France. Since 2011, Grantown-on-Spey has actually been house to Shinty club Strathspey Camanachd.