Berriedale
Berriedale is a little estate village on the northern east shore of Caithness, Scotland, on the A9 roadway in between Helmsdale and Lybster, near the border in between Caithness as well as Sutherland. It is sheltered from the North Sea. The town has a parish church in the Church of Scotland. Just south of Berriedale, heading to the north, the A9 passes the Berriedale Braes, a high drop in the landscape (brae is a Scots word for hillside, a borrowing of the Scottish Gaelic bràighe). The road drops down considerably (13% over 1,3 kilometres) to bridge a river, before rising once again (13% over 1,3 km), with a variety of sharp bends in the road-- although a few of the barrette flexes and also other nearby slopes have been alleviated over the last few years. The impracticality (and also price) of linking the Berriedale Braes stopped the structure of the Inverness-Wick Far North Line along the eastern shore of Caithness; instead the railway runs inland via the Flow Country. Berriedale lies at the end of the 8th phase of the seaside John o' Groats Path.
