I love asking UK, especially English, people this question; the answers vary wildly. Once had a Londoner describe the north as “anywhere north of the M25”.
So, lemmings, where is ‘the north’ to you?
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Here’s a relevant map men video about this very matter.
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The Midlands do exist! :P
North of the Thames. This means I can claim I moved from South to North.
In actuality the line is somewhere above Nottingham but below Stoke.
Roughly north of a line from the
MerseyDee to the Humber. If we use counties then the southern borders of Cheshire, Lancashire and Yorkshire form the line.It’s essentially this:
I highly recommend Rory Stewart’s documentary Border Country: The Story of Britain’s Lost Middleland if you can find it anywhere as it does a good job of looking at the North and how it is so strongly connected to Scotland, it’s really Hadrian’s Wall that divided us along an arbitrary geographical feature because it was easy to defend.
edit: as much as I’d like to exclude Cheshire I am allowing them into the North, so changed Mersey to Dee.
You could argue that some parts of North Lincolnshire are in the North. If you draw a line across, you’d be in the heart of Lancashire.
You could use the same argument to suggest that most of Norfolk is in the Midlands, but it isn’t.
I was actually going to mention that in my original comment. In my mind it kind of is in the midlands seeing as it aligns with the rest of the midlands.
In my mind geological barriers trump all imaginary lines. Latitudes means little when there’s 25 kilometers of water between you and the other side of land. Counties have irregular shapes mostly due to geographic features making it historically difficult to easily traverse over the areas that would become boundaries between two counties; cultural differences between these counties are a phenomenon that arises because of on-the-ground geography rather than imaginary latitudinal lines and to me, that’s why they take precedence.
North of Northampton because I don’t believe in the Midlands
North of the thames
Those bloody Northerners in Westminster!
I drove past Watford Gap yesterday, that felt like leaving the South.
For me the North is where you play tig, the South is where you play tag
Where I come from, we played It. Pretty sure that was the south, even south of Thames.
Good quesy! Having moved to Sheffield I’m started Ng to think of it as the centre of the country (height-wise) and as such, the art of t’north :)
Sheffield and above is North, Cambridge and below is South, in the middle is Midlands, lines are a bit wiggly.
A lot of people just think about wealth/poshness and tend to think only in terms of proximity to London.
Abderdeen & Inverness
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I stay in the Northern Isles, it’s always fun seeing what companies will deliver to us. Even more ridiculous is the fact I can order a battery charger with batteries no problem but they refuse to send the batteries on their own.
I’m a child from a broken home. One parent lived in Yorkshire, the other in the midlands. When they did handover, it was at Donington Park services, the approximate midpoint. Therefore my North begins not far north of Donington Park services.
Wow, that brings back memories, similar locations with one parent in Stockton the other further south and our ‘handover’ was a greasy spoon on the A1(M) called Haven cafe (now a just as shitty KFC or something). I think of mid as Leicester maybe, never really thought about a dividing point.
This thread about the most northerly The North sign might be of interest, and possibly even help :)
Well I live in the absolute middle of the Midlands, so anything north of me is “The North” and anything south of me is “The South”.
Simples.
Yorkshire and up for me
North of Northamptonshire, as someone in the South
