Berriedale
Berriedale is a small estate village on the northern eastern shore of Caithness, Scotland, on the A9 roadway between Helmsdale as well as Lybster, close to the boundary in between Caithness and also Sutherland. It is sheltered from the North Sea. The village has a parish church in the Church of Scotland. Just southern of Berriedale, heading to the north, the A9 passes the Berriedale Braes, a high drop in the landscape (brae is a Scots word for hill, a borrowing of the Scottish Gaelic bràighe). The roadway drops down considerably (13% over 1,3 kilometres) to link a river, before climbing again (13% over 1,3 km), with a variety of sharp bends in the roadway-- although a few of the hairpin bends and other close-by slopes have actually been reduced in the last few years. The impracticality (and also price) of connecting the Berriedale Braes prevented the structure of the Inverness-Wick Far North Line along the eastern coastline of Caithness; rather the train runs inland through the Flow Country. Berriedale lies at the end of the 8th stage of the coastal John o' Groats Trail.