Where is the NorthWest?

[MilnersGold]

Following on from the interesting & informative London thread.

For me the NW is Liverpool & surrounding areas. However I'm sure others will say the NW is much further north or south....

I'm really interested to see the replies...

Agree with Rosie ( and therefore the official designation).

Anything north of Birmingham is 'north'. North west is Manchester and anything West of there.

Stoke on Trent is Midlands. Warrington is North West. Therefore I'd propose Knutsford services across to Macclesfield as the start of the North West. Crewe is in No Man's Land. Anything east of the Pennines is not the North West. So Macclesfield is NW, Buxton isn't. Cumbria still counts up to the border with Scotland.

Notbad is spot on :-)

Being an ignorant southerner, I can only go on assumption and I'd say it was Manchester, Cheshire, Lancashire, that neck of the woods

Was meant to say Carlisle not Cardiff!

Where does it stop saying The North west of motorways? Maybe from there, personally for me it is Cheshire up to the Scottish borders

Wales, is split up, into North, West and South.

Does that make England 'East Wales?'

I think she's in Florida with Kim and Kanye.....
(Sorry)

I'd say Cumbria, and I say that as someone who lives in the North East which doesn't extend lower than Teeside - no way would Yorkshire be classed as north east so, by the same logic, I can't consider Lancashire (and lower) as north west

Yes to what Rosie said. We are North West and I've always been told Lancashire, Cheshire, Cumbria, Merseyside and Greater Manchester.

Yorkshire would like to be their own actual country but are technically north east along with County Durham Newcastle and Northumberland.

I'm pretty sure Lincolnshire Derbyshire Nottinghamshire and Staffordshire have some identity issues but as far as I'm aware they are the top end of the Midlands.

Basically this map but I would put the orange bit as northwest (we get northwest tonight news!!) and the yellow bit bar Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire (which are actually marked Midlands) as north east.

The map helps

Scotland and Wales are entirely seperate in this debate. Just not on that map

To those of us darrrn sarrf, Norf starts at the Watford Gap ! LOL

Actually there are people who really think like that :-)

I've started describing stoke as being the north Midlands. If I say just Midlands people assume Birmingham

Cheshire is north west.

I'm dead on the border!

Anywhere North of Birmingham that isn't the East, so Norwich is out.

Cheshire is really the Surrey of the North

It's the Lake District. Liverpool is practically the Midlands.

The NW begins at the Cheshire boarder. Stoke/Staffs is a bit harder to categorise IMO. Anything further south than Leek is the Midlands. The Peak District divides the East and West and I would class the peaks as Eastern.

I think the north east is harder to define because technically Sheffield is eastern and is in the north. But there's as much distance between Sheffield and the NE/Scottish boarder as there is between Sheffield and Portsmouth (well, technically there's 30 miles further distance to Portsmouth).

Tricky.

Liverpool is not the Midlands it is the northwest. England isn't divided into three equal parts. The Midlands is a much smaller strip which divides the two larger sections (north and south). Then the main three sections are divided into east and west. ( see map).

Bollocks that map separates it into nine

Bollocks that map separates it into nine