Berriedale
Berriedale is a little estate town on the northern eastern shore of Caithness, Scotland, on the A9 roadway in between Helmsdale and also Lybster, near to the boundary between Caithness and Sutherland. It is sheltered from the North Sea. The town has a parish church in the Church of Scotland. Just southern 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 loaning of the Scottish Gaelic bràighe). The roadway drops down considerably (13% over 1,3 km) to connect a river, prior to climbing once again (13% over 1,3 km), with a variety of sharp bends in the roadway-- although a few of the hairpin flexes and also various other nearby slopes have been reduced recently. The impracticality (as well as price) of bridging the Berriedale Braes avoided the building of the Inverness-Wick Far North Line along the east shore of Caithness; rather the train runs inland via the Flow Country. Berriedale lies at the end of the 8th stage of the seaside John o' Groats Route.