Nethy Bridge is a little town in Strathspey in the Highland council area of Scotland. The village exists within the historic parish of Abernethy and also Kincardine, as well as the Cairngorms National Park. Usually affectionately described simply as "Nethy" the town has, since Victorian times been a tourist location noted for its quiet and also private area at the edge of the Abernethy Forest. It is in the heart of Strathspey in the Highlands of Scotland, between Aviemore and Grantown, and also is within the limit of the Cairngorms National Park which was established in 2003. A main sector of Nethy Bridge was forestry, with at one time a number of sawmills in the area, however this has actually long since decreased and also currently much of the income is stemmed from tourist. The name is derived from the River Nethy, a tributary of the close-by Spey, which runs through the town, and the curved bridge which was constructed in 1810, to a timeless Telford design, and remains in the heart of the town. It needed to be repaired after the Moray flooding of August 1829, when part of it was gotten rid of. In overall, there are 4 Telford bridges in Nethy. Initially called Abernethy (Scottish Gaelic: Obar Neithich), Nethy Bridge was relabelled when the railways came this much north in the 1860s. The Great North of Scotland Railway currently had a town called Abernethy on its line better south, so renamed this Nethy Bridge to distinguish both. The placename Abernethy is still often utilized around here: Abernethy Highland Games, Abernethy Forest, Abernethy Primary School and so on. In 2011 the population of Nethy Bridge was 640. Nethy Bridge was among the first communities in the location to establish a vacationer association website. A huge part of the web site is to record all homes with their private history, and also several village "elders" have actually been employed to research and record the truths.
