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Grantown-on-Spey (Scottish Gaelic: Baile nan Granndach) 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 (32 km) south-east of Inverness (35 miles or 56 km by road).
The parish church and cemetery are located beside the River Spey at the end of Kirk Road beside the bridge which is the latest of three which replaced the nearby ferry. The bridge was financed by local residents, having been obtained as a War Surplus item from the War Office and erected in 1922 at a cost of £6,889. [ 3 ]
Although the ecclesiastical parish was combined in the sixteenth century, the village still has its own church and an old cemetery. A fragment of a Class I Pictish Stone - believed to have been found in the old burial ground - is now preserved in the vestry wall of the present church. Another building of note is The Manse, located nearby.
The scheme for classifying buildings in Scotland is: Category A: "buildings of national or international importance, either architectural or historic; or fine, little-altered examples of some particular period, style or building type."
Strathspey (Scottish Gaelic: Srath Spè, [s̪t̪ɾa ˈs̪peː]) is a region of the Scottish Highlands comprising part of the valley of the Spey. It includes the towns of Aviemore, Boat of Garten, Grantown-on-Spey, and Aberlour.
Grantown-on-Spey, Morayshire, Scotland: Died: 20 December 1931 (aged 81) ... Queensland and was buried in Lawnton Cemetery. [5] References
The Church of Scotland parish church in Grantown-on-Spey is named 'The Seafield Memorial Church', having been erected (on the site of predecessors) at a cost of £7000 by Caroline Stuart, Countess of Seafield, in memory of both her husband John Charles and her son, Ian Charles; it opened on 1 May 1886. [15]
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" (mainly in Invernessshire), which later became a civil parish and in which Inverallen remained until 1869.