Berriedale
Berriedale is a small estate village on the north east coast of Caithness, Scotland, on the A9 road in between Helmsdale as well as Lybster, near to the limit in between Caithness as well as Sutherland. It is protected from the North Sea. The village 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 steep 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 km) to link a river, prior to increasing again (13% over 1,3 km), with a variety of sharp bends in the road-- although some of the hairpin flexes as well as other close-by slopes have actually been relieved recently. The impracticality (as well as cost) of connecting the Berriedale Braes stopped the building of the Inverness-Wick Far North Line along the east coastline of Caithness; rather the train runs inland through the Flow Country. Berriedale is located at the end of the eighth stage of the coastal John o' Groats Path.