OS grid reference HU364896 Country Scotland Post town SHETLAND Local time Sunday 10:05 AM Council area Shetland | Lieutenancy area Shetland Sovereign state United Kingdom Postcode district ZE2 9 Dialling code 01595 Civil parish Northmavine | |
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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. 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. 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.
Map of North Roe, Shetland, UK
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North Roe Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA