Country: | Scotland |
Static Image Name: | Ayre at North Roe (geograph 2076946).jpg |
Static Image Caption: | Muckle Ayre at North Roe |
Coordinates: | 60.589°N -1.334°W |
Official Name: | North Roe |
Label Position: | left |
Civil Parish: | Northmaven |
Lieutenancy Scotland: | Shetland |
Unitary Scotland: | Shetland |
Constituency Westminster: | Orkney and Shetland |
Post Town: | SHETLAND |
Postcode District: | ZE2 9 |
Postcode Area: | ZE |
Dial Code: | 01806 |
Os Grid Reference: | HU364896 |
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.