Berriedale
Berriedale is a small estate village on the northern east coast of Caithness, Scotland, on the A9 roadway in between Helmsdale as well as Lybster, near to the boundary between Caithness and Sutherland. It is protected from the North Sea. The village has a parish church in the Church of Scotland. Just southern of Berriedale, on the way to the north, the A9 passes the Berriedale Braes, a high decrease in the landscape (brae is a Scots word for hill, a borrowing of the Scottish Gaelic bràighe). The roadway falls considerably (13% over 1,3 kilometres) to link a river, prior to increasing once more (13% over 1,3 km), with a number of sharp bends in the road-- although several of the hairpin flexes as well as various other nearby gradients have actually been eased recently. The impracticality (and also expense) of connecting the Berriedale Braes stopped the structure of the Inverness-Wick Far North Line along the east coast of Caithness; instead the railway runs inland via the Flow Country. Berriedale lies at the end of the eighth stage of the coastal John o' Groats Route.
