North Roe

North Roe

Muckle Ayre at North Roe
North Roe
 North Roe shown within Shetland
OS grid referenceHU364896
Civil parishNorthmaven
Council areaShetland
Lieutenancy areaShetland
CountryScotland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post town SHETLAND
Postcode district ZE2 9
Dialling code 01595
Police Scottish
Fire Scottish
Ambulance Scottish
EU Parliament Scotland
UK ParliamentOrkney and Shetland
Scottish ParliamentShetland
List of places
UK
Scotland

Coordinates: 60°35′20″N 1°20′02″W / 60.589°N 1.334°W / 60.589; -1.334

Designations
Official name Ronas Hill-North Roe & Tingon
Designated 11 August 1997

North Roe is a village, and protected area at the northern tip in the large Northmavine peninsula of the Mainland of Shetland, Scotland. It is a small village, with a school with less than a dozen pupils in 2011.[1] The moorland plateau to the south-west of the settlement is part of the Ronas Hill-North Roe and Tingon internationally recognised wetland site, protected under the terms of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands.[2][3][4] and also a Special Protection Area under the Birds Directive The village is served by the A970 road which runs the length of the Shetland mainland from south to north and is a single-carriageway for the final nine miles.

References

  1. ↑ "North Roe Primary School". northroe.shetland.sch.uk. Retrieved 22 February 2011.
  2. ↑ "The Annotated Ramsar List: United Kingdom". The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands. 5 September 2009. Archived from the original on 7 January 2013. Retrieved 13 October 2011.
  3. ↑ "Designated and Proposed Ramsar sites in Scotland". Joint Nature Conservation Committee. Retrieved 13 October 2011.
  4. ↑ "RAMSAR sites". Scottish Natural Heritage. Retrieved 13 October 2011.

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