Grantown-on-spey
Grantown-on-Spey is a town in the Highland Council Area, traditionally within the county of Moray. It was founded in 1765 as a planned negotiation on a reduced plateau at Freuchie close to the river Spey at the northern edge of the Cairngorm mountains, about 20 miles (32 kilometres) south-east of Inverness (35 miles or 56 kilometres by roadway). Initially called merely 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. Given that 2011, Grantown-on-Spey has been residence to Shinty club Strathspey Camanachd.