Nethy Bridge is a tiny village in Strathspey in the Highland council area of Scotland. The town lies within the historic parish of Abernethy and also Kincardine, and also the Cairngorms National Park. Typically affectionately described merely as "Nethy" the village has, considering that Victorian times been a vacationer location kept in mind for its peaceful as well as private location beside the Abernethy Forest. It remains in the heart of Strathspey in the Highlands of Scotland, between Aviemore and also Grantown, as well as is within the border of the Cairngorms National Park which was established in 2003. A main market of Nethy Bridge was forestry, with at one time several sawmills in the location, however this has long since diminished as well as now much of the income is derived from tourism. The name is derived from the River Nethy, a tributary of the close-by Spey, which runs through the village, and also the arched bridge which was built in 1810, to a classic Telford design, and also remains in the heart of the village. It needed to be repaired after the Moray flooding of August 1829, when part of it was washed away. 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 far north in the 1860s. The Great North of Scotland Railway already had actually a village called Abernethy on its line additionally southern, so renamed this one Nethy Bridge to differentiate the two. The placename Abernethy is still regularly utilized around below: Abernethy Highland Games, Abernethy Forest, Abernethy Primary School etc. In 2011 the population of Nethy Bridge was 640. Nethy Bridge was just one of the initial areas in the location to establish a vacationer association web site. A huge part of the internet site is to record all buildings with their private history, as well as several village "elders" have been gotten to research as well as record the realities.