Berriedale
Berriedale is a little estate village on the northern eastern coast of Caithness, Scotland, on the A9 road between Helmsdale as well as Lybster, close to the border in between Caithness as well as Sutherland. It is protected 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 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 kilometres) to link a river, before increasing again (13% over 1,3 kilometres), with a number of sharp bends in the road-- although a few of the hairpin flexes and various other close-by slopes have been alleviated recently. The impracticality (and price) of linking the Berriedale Braes prevented the building of the Inverness-Wick Far North Line along the east coast of Caithness; instead the train runs inland via the Flow Country. Berriedale lies at the end of the eighth stage of the seaside John o' Groats Path.
