Berriedale
Berriedale is a small estate town on the northern eastern shore of Caithness, Scotland, on the A9 road in between Helmsdale and Lybster, near to the boundary 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. 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 falls outstanding (13% over 1,3 kilometres) to bridge a river, before climbing once more (13% over 1,3 km), with a number of sharp bends in the roadway-- although some of the hairpin flexes and other nearby slopes have actually been alleviated in recent times. The impracticality (and cost) of bridging the Berriedale Braes stopped the structure of the Inverness-Wick Far North Line along the eastern coast of Caithness; rather the train runs inland through the Flow Country. Berriedale is located at the end of the 8th phase of the coastal John o' Groats Path.