Nethy Bridge
Nethy Bridge is a small village in Strathspey in the Highland council location of Scotland. The town lies within the historical parish of Abernethy and also Kincardine, and the Cairngorms National Park. Often affectionately described simply as "Nethy" the village has, given that Victorian times been a traveler location kept in mind for its quiet and secluded place beside the Abernethy Forest. It remains in the heart of Strathspey in the Highlands of Scotland, between Aviemore and also Grantown, and also is within the border of the Cairngorms National Park which was developed in 2003. A main industry of Nethy Bridge was forestry, with at once several sawmills in the area, but this has time out of mind gone away and now 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 town, and also the arched bridge which was constructed in 1810, to a classic Telford design, and is in the heart of the village. It had to be repaired after the Moray flooding of August 1829, when part of it was gotten rid of. 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 much north in the 1860s. The Great North of Scotland Railway already had actually a village called Abernethy on its line further south, so renamed this set Nethy Bridge to set apart both. The placename Abernethy is still regularly utilized around below: 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 tourist organization web site. A major part of the site is to record all residential properties with their specific background, as well as a number of village "elders" have been enlisted to research study and also record the realities.
