Berriedale is a tiny estate village on the north east coast of Caithness, Scotland, on the A9 road between Helmsdale and also Lybster, near the boundary in between Caithness and Sutherland. It is protected from the North Sea. The village has a parish church in the Church of Scotland. Simply southern of Berriedale, on the way to the north, the A9 passes the Berriedale Braes, a high decrease in the landscape (brae is a Scots word for hill, a loaning of the Scottish Gaelic bràighe). The roadway falls steeply (13% over 1,3 kilometres) to link a river, before rising again (13% over 1,3 km), with a number of sharp bends in the road-- although a few of the hairpin bends and various other nearby gradients have been alleviated recently. The impracticality (as well as expense) of connecting the Berriedale Braes stopped the building of the Inverness-Wick Far North Line along the eastern shore of Caithness; rather the railway runs inland with the Flow Country. Berriedale is located at the end of the eighth phase of the seaside John o' Groats Path.