Tingon | |
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Sumra, an abandoned croft house in Tingon | |
Location within Shetland | |
Population | 0 |
Language | Shetland dialect |
OS grid reference | HU2482 |
Civil parish | |
Council area | |
Lieutenancy area | |
Country | Scotland |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | SHETLAND |
Postcode district | ZE2 |
Dialling code | 01806 |
Police | Scotland |
Fire | Scottish |
Ambulance | Scottish |
UK Parliament | |
Scottish Parliament | |
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]