Castle Grant stands a mile north of Grantown-on-Spey and was the former seat of the Clan Grant chiefs of Strathspey in Highlands, Scotland. It was originally named Freuchie Castle but was renamed Grant in 1694. The castle is a Category A listed building and the grounds are included in the Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes in Scotland.
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Castle Grant platform railway station was a railway station serving Castle Grant, in Strathspey in Scotland.
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Ian Charles Community Hospital is a health facility in Castle Road East, Grantown-on-Spey, Scotland. It is managed by NHS Highland.
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Strathspey Thistle Football Club are a senior football club from Grantown-on-Spey in the Highlands of Scotland. They currently play in the Highland League, but formerly played in Junior football from 1993.
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Grantown-on-Spey is a town in the Highland Council Area, historically within the county of Moray. It is located on a low plateau at Freuchie beside the river Spey at the northern edge of the Cairngorm mountains, about 20 miles south-east of Inverness.
The town was founded in 1765 as a planned settlement, and was originally called simply Grantown after Sir James Grant. The addition 'on Spey' was added by the burgh council in 1898. The town has several listed 18th and 19th century buildings, including several large hotels, and serves as a regional centre for tourism and services in the Strathspey region.
The town is twinned with Notre-Dame-de-Monts in the Vendée, Pays de la Loire, France.
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Inverallan is a former parish in Morayshire in Scotland. It is generally equivalent to the area now known as Grantown.
At an unknown date before the Reformation, it joined together with the parishes of Cromdale and Advie to form the parish of "Cromdale, Inverallan and Advie", which later became a civil parish and in which Inverallen remained until 1869. Grantown was founded there in 1765.
The castle was sold by the Grant family in 1983, remaining in private ownership since.