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Tynron is a village and civil parish located in Dumfries and Galloway, in south-west Scotland. It lies in a hollow along the Shinnel Water, approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) from the village of Moniaive. The area is notable for Tynron Doon, the site of a Roman Iron Age hillfort, where remnants of ditches and ramparts are still visible. The name Tynron is believed to derive from the Cumbric elements din rhón, meaning "lance-fort".
1. Notable people
James Shaw, Schoolmaster and Writer Rev Prof James Williamson (1725–1795) mathematician, joint founder of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
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1. External links
Tynron Glen by John Shaw Tynron Parish John Penman of Shinnel Mill and Glenairlie Mill
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Tynron Doon
Tynron Doon is a multivallate Iron Age hill fort outside the village of Tynron in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. It was occupied on and off from the 1st millennium BC until the 16th century, when an L-shaped tower house stood there. Tynron Doon lies at the southern end of the Scaur hills.
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Grennan Hill
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Shinnel Water
Shinnel Water, also spelt Shinnell, is a river in the region of Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.
It rises in the Scaur hills of Tynron Parish in the Southern Uplands at an altitude of 460m, and flows 13 miles to join Scaur Water near Penpont, at an altitude of 70m. There are two notable features of the Shinnel: at the confluence of the two rivers, it flows over a ridge of rocks with some force; and three miles upstream, the river forms a picturesque waterfall at Aird Linn.
Like Scaur Water, the Shinnel is renowned for trout fishing and flows through birch and oak forest.