Grantown-on-spey
Grantown-on-Spey is a community in the Highland Council Location, historically 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 north edge of the Cairngorm hills, about 20 miles (32 kilometres) south-east of Inverness (35 miles or 56 km 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. Since 2011, Grantown-on-Spey has been home to Shinty club Strathspey Camanachd.