Berriedale
Berriedale is a tiny estate village on the north east shore of Caithness, Scotland, on the A9 roadway between Helmsdale and also Lybster, near to the border between Caithness and also Sutherland. It is protected 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 decrease in the landscape (brae is a Scots word for hillside, a borrowing of the Scottish Gaelic bràighe). The road drops down steeply (13% over 1,3 kilometres) to connect a river, before climbing again (13% over 1,3 km), with a number of sharp bends in the roadway-- although several of the barrette bends and also various other close-by gradients have been relieved in recent years. The impracticality (and also price) of bridging the Berriedale Braes avoided the structure of the Inverness-Wick Far North Line along the east coastline of Caithness; instead the railway runs inland via the Flow Country. Berriedale lies at the end of the 8th stage of the coastal John o' Groats Path.