Nethy Bridge
Nethy Bridge is a small town in Strathspey in the Highland council area of Scotland. The village lies within the historic parish of Abernethy and also Kincardine, as well as the Cairngorms National Park. Commonly affectionately described merely as "Nethy" the town has, since Victorian times been a visitor destination noted for its silent and also remote area 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 is within the limit of the Cairngorms National Park which was established in 2003. A primary industry of Nethy Bridge was forestry, with at once several sawmills in the location, but this has time out of mind decreased as well as currently much of the income is derived from tourism. The name is derived from the River Nethy, a tributary of the neighboring Spey, which runs through the town, and also the curved bridge which was integrated in 1810, to a traditional Telford design, as well as remains in the heart of the village. It had to be fixed after the Moray flood of August 1829, when part of it was washed away. In total amount, there are 4 Telford bridges in Nethy. Initially called Abernethy (Scottish Gaelic: Obar Neithich), Nethy Bridge was renamed when the railways came this much north in the 1860s. The Great North of Scotland Railway already had a town called Abernethy on its line better southern, so relabelled this set Nethy Bridge to distinguish the two. The placename Abernethy is still often made use of 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 initial communities in the location to develop a traveler organization web site. A huge part of the internet site is to record all homes with their private background, as well as a number of town "elders" have actually been employed to research study and also record the facts.