Berriedale
Berriedale is a small estate village on the north eastern shore of Caithness, Scotland, on the A9 roadway in between Helmsdale and Lybster, near the boundary in between Caithness and Sutherland. It is protected 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 loaning of the Scottish Gaelic bràighe). The road drops down considerably (13% over 1,3 km) to bridge a river, prior to increasing once again (13% over 1,3 km), with a number of sharp bends in the roadway-- although several of the barrette bends as well as various other neighboring slopes have been relieved over the last few years. The impracticality (and expense) of connecting the Berriedale Braes stopped the structure of the Inverness-Wick Far North Line along the east shore of Caithness; instead the train runs inland with the Flow Country. Berriedale lies at the end of the eighth phase of the seaside John o' Groats Trail.
