Nethy Bridge is a small town in Strathspey in the Highland council location of Scotland. The village lies within the historical parish of Abernethy and also Kincardine, and the Cairngorms National Park. Often passionately described just as "Nethy" the village has, given that Victorian times been a vacationer location kept in mind for its quiet as well as remote 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, and is within the border of the Cairngorms National Park which was established in 2003. A main sector of Nethy Bridge was forestry, with at once a number of sawmills in the area, however this has time out of mind gone away and currently much of the earnings is derived from tourism. The name is derived from the River Nethy, a tributary of the neighboring Spey, which runs through the village, and also the arched bridge which was integrated in 1810, to a timeless Telford design, as well as is in the heart of the town. It needed 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. Originally called Abernethy (Scottish Gaelic: Obar Neithich), Nethy Bridge was renamed when the railways came this much north in the 1860s. The Great North of Scotland Railway already had actually a town called Abernethy on its line additionally south, so relabelled this Nethy Bridge to distinguish 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 among the very first communities in the area to develop a vacationer association site. A major part of the internet site is to record all properties with their private history, and several village "elders" have been employed to study as well as record the realities.