This private residence is on another of our local walks. The grounds run into several 100 acres but are mostly owned for shooting and there are some tenant farmers. There are tracks all round the estate and one is free to walk through them (although not to shoot or kill pheasants).
Castle Grant has been over the years, part of the estate, a hotel, flats and now is obviously owned by some people who are lucky lottery winners.
My granny was a Grant but no, sadly, not the ower/accupier of a grand castle. She stayed with her family as a tenant farming family some 2 miles from Grantown itself. One of 11 children, many of them went off to Newfoundland to make their living and I do have distant relatives there too.
Granny married a man from a fishing family from Stornaway and lived with him in Birmingham to have her family (my mum) and only returned to the Highlands when she was in her 60s and remarried. She was first a Grant, then a Matheson then Calder.
Which od course links her to the Calder Valley!! Way down in West Yorkshire.
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