Grantown-on-spey
Grantown-on-Spey is a community in the Highland Council Location, traditionally within the county of Moray. It was founded in 1765 as a planned settlement on a reduced plateau at Freuchie close to the river Spey at the northern side of the Cairngorm mountains, 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 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 actually been home to Shinty club Strathspey Camanachd.