Berriedale
Berriedale is a tiny estate village on the northern east shore of Caithness, Scotland, on the A9 road in between Helmsdale and Lybster, near the boundary between Caithness and also Sutherland. It is sheltered from the North Sea. The town 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 high drop in the landscape (brae is a Scots word for hill, a loaning of the Scottish Gaelic bràighe). The road falls considerably (13% over 1,3 kilometres) to connect a river, before rising again (13% over 1,3 km), with a variety of sharp bends in the roadway-- although some of the hairpin bends and other neighboring slopes have been relieved in the last few years. The impracticality (and also cost) of linking the Berriedale Braes prevented the structure of the Inverness-Wick Far North Line along the east shore of Caithness; rather the train runs inland via the Flow Country. Berriedale lies at the end of the eighth phase of the coastal John o' Groats Route.
