Berriedale is a small estate town on the north eastern shore of Caithness, Scotland, on the A9 road in between Helmsdale as well as Lybster, near to the boundary in between Caithness and Sutherland. It is sheltered from the North Sea. The town has a parish church in the Church of Scotland. Simply south of Berriedale, heading to the north, the A9 passes the Berriedale Braes, a steep decrease in the landscape (brae is a Scots word for hill, a loaning of the Scottish Gaelic bràighe). The road drops down outstanding (13% over 1,3 kilometres) to connect a river, before rising once again (13% over 1,3 kilometres), with a variety of sharp bends in the road-- although some of the hairpin bends and various other close-by gradients have actually been eased over the last few years. The impracticality (and price) of linking the Berriedale Braes stopped the building of the Inverness-Wick Far North Line along the eastern coast of Caithness; rather the railway runs inland with the Flow Country. Berriedale is located at the end of the 8th phase of the coastal John o' Groats Route.