Nethy Bridge
Nethy Bridge is a tiny village in Strathspey in the Highland council location of Scotland. The town exists within the historical parish of Abernethy and also Kincardine, as well as the Cairngorms National Park. Often passionately described merely as "Nethy" the town has, because Victorian times been a vacationer location noted for its quiet as well as secluded location at the edge of the Abernethy Forest. It is in the heart of Strathspey in the Highlands of Scotland, in between Aviemore and also Grantown, as well as is within the limit of the Cairngorms National Park which was developed in 2003. A key market of Nethy Bridge was forestry, with at one time numerous sawmills in the location, but this has time out of mind gone away and also currently much of the income is originated from tourism. The name is originated from the River Nethy, a tributary of the close-by Spey, which goes through the village, and also the curved bridge which was integrated in 1810, to a classic Telford design, and is in the heart of the town. It had to be fixed after the Moray flood of August 1829, when part of it was washed away. In total amount, there are four Telford bridges in Nethy. Originally called Abernethy (Scottish Gaelic: Obar Neithich), Nethy Bridge was renamed when the trains came this far north in the 1860s. The Great North of Scotland Railway already had a town called Abernethy on its line further southern, so renamed this one Nethy Bridge to distinguish the two. The placename Abernethy is still regularly made use of around right here: Abernethy Highland Games, Abernethy Forest, Abernethy Primary School etc. In 2011 the population of Nethy Bridge was 640. Nethy Bridge was among the initial communities in the location to establish a vacationer association internet site. A huge part of the website is to record all residential properties with their private history, and also numerous village "elders" have been employed to research study and record the facts.
