Nethy Bridge
Nethy Bridge is a small town in Strathspey in the Highland council location of Scotland. The town exists within the historic parish of Abernethy and also Kincardine, and also the Cairngorms National Park. Usually passionately referred to simply as "Nethy" the town has, given that Victorian times been a visitor location kept in mind for its peaceful and also remote area beside 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 established in 2003. A key market of Nethy Bridge was forestry, with at one time a number of sawmills in the location, but this has actually time out of mind gone away and also currently much of the earnings is originated from tourist. The name is stemmed from the River Nethy, a tributary of the close-by Spey, which runs through the village, and also the curved bridge which was constructed in 1810, to a timeless Telford design, and also 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 overall, there are 4 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 already had a village called Abernethy on its line further southern, so renamed this set Nethy Bridge to set apart both. The placename Abernethy is still regularly 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 among the first communities in the area to develop a tourist organization site. A major part of the site is to record all buildings with their individual background, and numerous village "elders" have been enlisted to study as well as record the facts.
