Nethy Bridge is a tiny town in Strathspey in the Highland council location of Scotland. The village exists within the historical parish of Abernethy as well as Kincardine, as well as the Cairngorms National Park. Commonly passionately referred to simply as "Nethy" the town has, considering that Victorian times been a visitor destination noted for its silent and also secluded place at the edge of the Abernethy Forest. It remains in the heart of Strathspey in the Highlands of Scotland, in between Aviemore and Grantown, and also 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 a number of sawmills in the area, but this has actually time out of mind decreased as well as now much of the income is stemmed from tourism. The name is stemmed from the River Nethy, a tributary of the close-by Spey, which goes through the village, and also the arched bridge which was built in 1810, to a traditional Telford design, and also is in the heart of the town. It had to be fixed after the Moray flooding of August 1829, when part of it was washed away. In total, there are four 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 currently had actually a town called Abernethy on its line even more south, so renamed this set Nethy Bridge to differentiate the two. The placename Abernethy is still frequently used around below: Abernethy Highland Games, Abernethy Forest, Abernethy Primary School etc. In 2011 the population of Nethy Bridge was 640. Nethy Bridge was one of the very first communities in the area to establish a vacationer organization site. A major part of the site is to record all homes with their private history, and numerous town "elders" have actually been gotten to research as well as record the facts.