Berriedale
Berriedale is a small estate village on the north eastern coast of Caithness, Scotland, on the A9 roadway between Helmsdale as well as Lybster, near the border in between Caithness and also Sutherland. It is protected from the North Sea. The town 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 drop in the landscape (brae is a Scots word for hill, a loaning of the Scottish Gaelic bràighe). The road falls considerably (13% over 1,3 kilometres) to link a river, prior to increasing again (13% over 1,3 kilometres), with a number of sharp bends in the roadway-- although a few of the hairpin flexes and also various other nearby gradients have been relieved over the last few years. The impracticality (and cost) of bridging the Berriedale Braes protected against the structure of the Inverness-Wick Far North Line along the eastern coastline of Caithness; instead the train runs inland with the Flow Country. Berriedale lies at the end of the eighth phase of the seaside John o' Groats Trail.