Tour Scotland wee video of old photographs of Berriedale, Scottish Gaelic: Bearghdal, a small estate village on the northern east coast of Caithness. It is located on the A9 road between Helmsdale and Lybster, close to the boundary between Caithness and Sutherland. It is sheltered from the North Sea. The village has a parish church in the Church of Scotland. Just south of the village of Berriedale, on the way to the north, the A9 road passes the Berriedale Braes, a steep drop in the landscape, Brae is a Scots word for hillside. The impracticality, and cost, of bridging the Berriedale Braes prevented the building of the Inverness to Wick Far North Line along the east coast of Caithness; instead the railway runs inland through the Flow Country. Berriedale is located at the end of the eighth stage of the coastal John o' Groats Walking Trail.
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