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 affectionately described just as "Nethy" the town has, because Victorian times been a traveler location noted for its silent and also private location beside the Abernethy Forest. It is in the heart of Strathspey in the Highlands of Scotland, between Aviemore and also Grantown, as well as is within the border of the Cairngorms National Park which was established in 2003. A primary industry of Nethy Bridge was forestry, with at one time several sawmills in the location, yet this has long since gone away as well as currently much of the revenue is stemmed from tourist. The name is derived from the River Nethy, a tributary of the neighboring Spey, which runs through the village, and the curved bridge which was constructed in 1810, to a traditional Telford design, and also is in the heart of the town. It needed to be fixed after the Moray flood of August 1829, when part of it was washed away. In total, 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 actually a village called Abernethy on its line even more southern, so relabelled this Nethy Bridge to distinguish 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 just one of the initial neighborhoods in the area to establish a vacationer organization internet site. A huge part of the web site is to record all buildings with their private background, as well as numerous village "elders" have been gotten to research study and record the facts.
