- TITLE
- Spar shop, Kingussie
- EXTERNAL ID
- HC_PLANNING_04_013_0988
- PLACENAME
- Kingussie
- OLD COUNTY/PARISH
- INVERNESS: Kingussie and Insh
- DATE OF IMAGE
- 24 June 1976
- PERIOD
- 1970s
- CREATOR
- T. Kenneth MacKenzie
- SOURCE
- The Highland Council Planning Department
- ASSET ID
- 14878
- KEYWORDS
- badenoch shops

Spar foodmarket on Kingussie High Street. Originally founded in the Netherlands in the 1930s, Spar shops can now be found across the world. In the UK they are primarily known as grocery and convenience stores.
Kingussie is a small town found in the upper Spey Valley of Badenoch and Strathspey. The name comes from the Gaelic 'Ceann a' Ghiuthsaich' which means 'head of the pine forest'. The original settlement, surrounded by a pine forest, was created a Burgh of Barony in 1464. It was redesigned as a planned village by the Duke of Gordon in 1799.
Tourism and local business were given a boost with the coming of the railway in the 1860s and a golf course was opened in 1890. The Camanachd Association, which governs shinty in Scotland, was form in Kingussie in 1893.