North Roe

North Roe
Muckle Ayre at North Roe
North Roe Location within Shetland
OS grid reference	HU364896
Civil parish	Northmaven
Council area	Shetland
Lieutenancy area	Shetland
Country	Scotland
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	SHETLAND
Postcode district	ZE2 9
Dialling code	01806
Police	Scotland
Fire	Scottish
Ambulance	Scottish
UK Parliament	Orkney and Shetland
Scottish Parliament	Shetland
Ramsar Wetland
Official name	Ronas Hill - North Roe & Tingon
Designated	11 August 1997
Reference no.	916 [1]
List of places UK Scotland 60°35′20″N1°20′02″W / 60.589°N 1.334°W / 60.589; -1.334

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. ^[2] 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.

Environment

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, ^{[3] [4] [5]} and also a Special Protection Area under the Birds Directive. It has been designated as an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International because it supports a suite of moorland-breeding birds, including red-throated loons, great skuas and merlins. ^[6]

References

1. "Ronas Hill - North Roe & Tingon". Ramsar Sites Information Service. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
2. "North Roe Primary School". northroe.shetland.sch.uk. Retrieved 22 February 2011.
3. "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.
4. "Designated and Proposed Ramsar sites in Scotland". Joint Nature Conservation Committee. Retrieved 13 October 2011.
5. "Ramsar sites". Scottish Natural Heritage. Archived from the original on 29 December 2010. Retrieved 13 October 2011.
6. "Ronas Hill – North Roe and Tingon". BirdLife Data Zone. BirdLife International. 2024. Retrieved 1 September 2024.

External links

• Canmore - North Roe site record