Berriedale
Berriedale is a small estate village on the north east coast of Caithness, Scotland, on the A9 road between Helmsdale as well as Lybster, near the limit 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 south 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 borrowing of the Scottish Gaelic bràighe). The roadway falls steeply (13% over 1,3 km) to link a river, prior to rising again (13% over 1,3 kilometres), with a number of sharp bends in the road-- although several of the hairpin bends as well as various other close-by gradients have actually been eased in the last few years. The impracticality (and also expense) of bridging the Berriedale Braes prevented the structure of the Inverness-Wick Far North Line along the east coastline of Caithness; rather the train runs inland with the Flow Country. Berriedale lies at the end of the 8th stage of the coastal John o' Groats Trail.