Nethy Bridge
Nethy Bridge is a little village in Strathspey in the Highland council area of Scotland. The town exists within the historical parish of Abernethy and also Kincardine, and also the Cairngorms National Park. Often passionately described simply as "Nethy" the town has, because Victorian times been a visitor location noted for its peaceful and also secluded place at the edge of the Abernethy Forest. It is in the heart of Strathspey in the Highlands of Scotland, in between Aviemore and Grantown, and is within the border of the Cairngorms National Park which was established in 2003. A primary market of Nethy Bridge was forestry, with at one time a number of sawmills in the location, however this has long since gone away and also currently much of the earnings is originated from tourism. The name is derived from the River Nethy, a tributary of the nearby 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 village. It needed to be repaired 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 relabelled when the railways came this far north in the 1860s. The Great North of Scotland Railway already had actually a town called Abernethy on its line even more south, so relabelled this Nethy Bridge to set apart the two. The placename Abernethy is still often 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 among the first areas in the location to establish a tourist organization site. A huge part of the website is to record all buildings with their specific background, and also numerous town "elders" have been enlisted to study as well as record the realities.
