Berriedale
Berriedale is a tiny estate village on the northern east coastline of Caithness, Scotland, on the A9 roadway between Helmsdale and Lybster, near the limit in between Caithness and Sutherland. It is protected from the North Sea. The town has a parish church in the Church of Scotland. Simply south of Berriedale, on the way to the north, the A9 passes the Berriedale Braes, a high drop in the landscape (brae is a Scots word for hill, a borrowing of the Scottish Gaelic bràighe). The roadway falls considerably (13% over 1,3 kilometres) to connect a river, prior to climbing once more (13% over 1,3 kilometres), with a number of sharp bends in the road-- although some of the hairpin flexes and also various other neighboring gradients have been reduced over the last few years. The impracticality (as well as expense) of bridging the Berriedale Braes protected against the structure of the Inverness-Wick Far North Line along the eastern coastline of Caithness; rather the train runs inland via the Flow Country. Berriedale lies at the end of the eighth stage of the coastal John o' Groats Route.
