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 drove past Watford Gap yesterday, that felt like leaving the South.
North of the thames
Those bloody Northerners in Westminster!
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.
North of Northamptonshire, as someone in the South
Yorkshire and up for me
This thread about the most northerly The North sign might be of interest, and possibly even help :)
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.
North of Northampton because I don’t believe in the Midlands
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.
Abderdeen & Inverness
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Once had a Londoner describe the north as “anywhere north of the M25”
I mean, London’s a big city but I’ve never heard any Londoner say this in all my life living there. It’s always been “comedians” usually Northern ones as a cheeky insult to Londoners: “Oh look they don’t even know geography”. Which, to be fair, we probably don’t.
Personally I’d say anything North of Sheffield is da Naaarth. Roughly anything above Wales.
This would mean that Liverpool isn’t in the North, and Manchester just barely squeaks by (though most of Manchester is at or below Sheffield Latitude). They all dance around 53.3-53.5^o Lat.
