Nethy Bridge is a little town in Strathspey in the Highland council location of Scotland. The village lies within the historic parish of Abernethy as well as Kincardine, and the Cairngorms National Park. Usually affectionately referred to simply as "Nethy" the village has, because Victorian times been a vacationer location noted for its silent and also private location at the edge of the Abernethy Forest. It is in the heart of Strathspey in the Highlands of Scotland, in between Aviemore and Grantown, and also is within the boundary 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, yet this has long since subsided as well as currently much of the earnings is stemmed from tourism. The name is stemmed from the River Nethy, a tributary of the close-by Spey, which goes through the town, as well as the arched bridge which was built in 1810, to a classic Telford design, and remains in the heart of the town. It needed to be fixed after the Moray flood of August 1829, when part of it was removed. In overall, there are four Telford bridges in Nethy. Initially called Abernethy (Scottish Gaelic: Obar Neithich), Nethy Bridge was renamed when the railways came this far north in the 1860s. The Great North of Scotland Railway currently had actually a town called Abernethy on its line further southern, so relabelled this Nethy Bridge to separate both. The placename Abernethy is still often used 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 one of the first communities in the area to develop a traveler association site. A huge part of the website is to record all residential properties with their private background, and also several town "elders" have been employed to research study and record the realities.
