Grantown-on-spey
Grantown-on-Spey is a town in the Highland Council Area, traditionally within the region of Moray. It was founded in 1765 as a prepared settlement on a reduced plateau at Freuchie next to the river Spey at the north edge of the Cairngorm mountains, about 20 miles (32 km) south-east of Inverness (35 miles or 56 km by road). Originally called simply 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. Given that 2011, Grantown-on-Spey has actually been home to Shinty club Strathspey Camanachd.