Berriedale
Berriedale is a little estate town on the north eastern coastline of Caithness, Scotland, on the A9 roadway in between Helmsdale as well as Lybster, close to the boundary in between Caithness and also Sutherland. It is sheltered from the North Sea. The village has a parish church in the Church of Scotland. Simply south of Berriedale, heading 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 road falls steeply (13% over 1,3 km) to link a river, before climbing once again (13% over 1,3 km), with a number of sharp bends in the road-- although several of the hairpin bends and various other nearby gradients have been alleviated over the last few years. The impracticality (and also expense) of bridging the Berriedale Braes avoided the building of the Inverness-Wick Far North Line along the east coast of Caithness; rather the train runs inland via the Flow Country. Berriedale is located at the end of the eighth phase of the seaside John o' Groats Path.
