Visit Grantown on Spey

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This is a nice, small ruin conveniently located for the Speyside Whisky Trail. It is open all year round with free entry. Access is via the signposted car park. Exact date of construction is unknown but it is thought that constrcution dates to around the 1370s and it may have been built on the site of a former Iron Age fort. The castle used to be the stronghold of Alexander Stewart aka ‘the ‘Wolf of Badenoch’ who lived 1342–1406

Part 1 of an exclusive tour of Castle Grant…Grantown on Spey Scotland…As a descendant of Peter Grant who was captured by Oliver Cromwell during the Battle of Dunbar September 3rd. 1650 I travelled to Great Britain as a Pilgrim to the land of my forefathers and foremothers…