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 prepared settlement on a reduced plateau at Freuchie next to the river Spey at the northern edge of the Cairngorm mountains, concerning 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 added by the burgh council in 1898. The town is twinned with Notre-Dame-de-Monts in the Vendée, Pays-de-la-Loire, France. Given that 2011, Grantown-on-Spey has actually been home to Shinty club Strathspey Camanachd.