Tingon is in the Scottish Islands, United Kingdom.

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Its coordinates are 60.5300°, -1.5400°.

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Tingon

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Tingon in Orkney + Shetland, United Kingdom.

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Tingon is a place of interest in Orkney + Shetland, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.

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Ronas Hill - North Roe & Tingon is a designated Ramsar site in Scotland, covering an area of 5,470 hectares. It features active blanket bogs, acidic lochans, and pools that provide habitat for various wildlife, including common seals and otters.

From the Wikipedia article

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.

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Background

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. The name Aurora is believed to have been given to that croft by Magnus Manson (a son-in-law to smallpox inoculator Johnnie Notions), who served as a captain of the foretop in the Royal Navy during the time of Nelson on a ship of the same name.

Description

At least seventeen families were cleared, many of which were extended families related to each other, and several of which were close relations of the Anderson brothers who were responsible for the conducting the evictions. (The relationships between many of the families are displayed in family trees below). The circumstances of some of the families are described below. The family of Donald Tulloch and Mary Harrison were one of the first (if not the first) of the families to be evicted. They had a two-year-old son Thomas and an infant daughter Grace ("Gracie"), who was carried out of Tingon in a . They constructed a in Murrion, Eshaness to live in until they were able to get one of the…

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