Berriedale
Berriedale is a small estate village on the northern eastern coast of Caithness, Scotland, on the A9 road in between Helmsdale as well as Lybster, close to the boundary in between Caithness and Sutherland. It is sheltered from the North Sea. The village has a parish church in the Church of Scotland. Simply 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 loaning of the Scottish Gaelic bràighe). The road drops down steeply (13% over 1,3 kilometres) to bridge a river, before climbing once more (13% over 1,3 kilometres), with a variety of sharp bends in the road-- although some of the hairpin flexes and various other neighboring gradients have actually been relieved over the last few years. The impracticality (and also cost) of bridging the Berriedale Braes protected against the structure of the Inverness-Wick Far North Line along the eastern coast of Caithness; rather the railway runs inland through the Flow Country. Berriedale is located at the end of the eighth stage of the coastal John o' Groats Path.
