The burn running through the Square

In the mid nineteenth Century, looking North from the Court House now Town House. Towards the Garth Hotel, part of the Garth hotel was built as the Clerks House 1769.  There was a bridge and the burn ran underneath bridge and past the Court House down past Burnfield and through South Street.

In this picture you can see the Garth the white building at the top of the road.  The grassy dip in front of the Garth Hotel is the former path where the burn would have flowed. The burn started at the the Dulaig falls, beside the caravan site.

Sir James Grant the founder of Grantown-on-Spey encouraged local industry and new farming methods.  The Grantown Linen Co was launched in John Grants property (site of Morlich House) in 1768-69.  Thomas Cornish, an English wool comber and stocking maker was installed in 1776 in the house which later became part of the Garth Hotel. Water supplied by the burn diverted through "Burnfield".  Cloth was spread on the grass to bleach.