Berriedale
Berriedale is a tiny estate village on the north eastern shore of Caithness, Scotland, on the A9 roadway between Helmsdale as well as Lybster, near the border in between Caithness and Sutherland. It is sheltered from the North Sea. The town has a parish church in the Church of Scotland. Simply south of Berriedale, en route to the north, the A9 passes the Berriedale Braes, a steep decrease in the landscape (brae is a Scots word for hillside, a borrowing of the Scottish Gaelic bràighe). The roadway falls considerably (13% over 1,3 km) to connect a river, prior to increasing once again (13% over 1,3 km), with a number of sharp bends in the road-- although some of the hairpin flexes and other nearby slopes have been relieved in 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 coast of Caithness; rather the train runs inland via the Flow Country. Berriedale is located at the end of the eighth stage of the coastal John o' Groats Path.
