Tingon

Tingon
Sumra, an abandoned croft house in Tingon
Tingon Location within Shetland
Population	0
Language	Shetland dialect
OS grid reference	HU2482
Civil parish	Northmavine
Council area	Shetland
Lieutenancy area	Shetland
Country	Scotland
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	SHETLAND
Postcode district	ZE2
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 October 1997
Reference no.	916[1]

Tingon is a peninsula in the north-west of Northmavine, Shetland. It is delineated on the east by Ronas Voe, and on the west by Hamnavoe. It is also the collective name of a group of settlements on the peninsula, which were nearly all evicted as part of the Highland Clearances.[2]

Environment

Tingon is designated as a Ramsar site,[3] a Special Protection Area,[4] a Special Area of Conservation[5] and a Site of Special Scientific Interest.[6] It forms part of the Ronas Hill – North Roe and Tingon Important Bird Area (IBA), designated as such by BirdLife International because it supports a suite of moorland-breeding birds, including red-throated loons, great skuas and merlins.[7]

History

At its peak, Tingon had a number of crofts; there was a croft each at Knowes, Sannions, Sumra, Ocran, Ocraness, Quidadale, Westerhouse and Aurora (pronounced 'Rora). Additionally, Southerhouse, Northerhouse, and Easterhouse each had two crofts, making a total of 14. [8]

References

1. "Ronas Hill - North Roe & Tingon". Ramsar Sites Information Service. Retrieved 9 December 2019.
2. The Story of Tingon, p. 2-3.
3. Ramsar 2007.
4. Natura 2000 2015.
5. JNCC 2016.
6. SiteLink.
7. "Ronas Hill – North Roe and Tingon". BirdLife Data Zone. BirdLife International. 2024. Retrieved 1 September 2024.
8. The Story of Tingon, p. 1.

Sources

• The Story of Tingon. Tangwick Haa Museum.
• "Natura 2000 – Standard Data Form" (PDF). JNCC. 15 January 2016. Retrieved 3 December 2019.
• "Ronas Hill - North Roe & Tingon". Ramsar Sites Information Service. 1 January 2007. Retrieved 3 December 2019.
• "Ronas Hill - North Roe & Tingon". Natura 2000. December 2015 [1997]. Retrieved 3 December 2019.
• "Tingon SSSI". SiteLink. Retrieved 3 December 2019.