| Grantown-on-spey |
Limousines in Grantown-ON-Spey |
Information AboutGrantown-on-spey |
| CATEGORIES ABOUT GRANTOWN-ON-SPEY | |
| towns in highland | |
| badenoch and strathspey | |
| settlements established in 1765 | |
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Originally simply "Grantown" (after Sir James Grant ), the addition of "on Spey" was one of the first actions of the newly-created burgh in 1898. The ecclesiastical (and later civil) parish in which it lay was " Cromdale , Inverallan and Advie " formed by the union of the same-named parishes in the 16th century. It lies at the northern edge of the Cairngorm mountains, about twenty miles south east of Inverness . It was formerly in the County of Moray , until the 1860s being partly within a detached portion of Inverness-shire . It possesses a small Museum {Link without Title} . The 2001 population was 3,409 {Link without Title} . Grantown-on-Spey is twinned with Notre-Dame-de-Monts in Vendée , Pays-de-la-Loire , France . TRANSPORT The town used to be served by a railway which was however closed in the 1960s. The Strathspey Railway is a Heritage Railway which proposes to extend its line to Grantown-on-Spey. EXTERNAL LINKS
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