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...

The northwest is the Highlands - anywhere around Ullapool and Skye.

I've booked Firenze! Thank you Jamie!

I loved Tattenhall ice cream farm when I was growing up! I gather it's changed a lot recently?

I remember being very amused by the irony when the Candle Factory burnt down!

I've lived here most of my life; it's prettier than people imagine, it's earthy, gritty, bucolic, full of very funny (in a good way), kind, friendly, loving, generous people and is often a misunderstood and misrepresented region. Didn't answer OP's question but ne'er mind. ..

I remember the candle factory burning down! Was that the same one you could go to to make your own candles?

OP here - Wow what a lot of replies to my late night musings :) amazing what insomnia can do!

Very interesting reading them all.

Cumbria

Manchester is not NW and neither is Liverpool

...waves at other Cumbrians who probably aren't here

I know it includes Cumbria, but I think of them being very different. It's the stop just before Scotland on the train and even though it looks similar to Wales, it feels different. We are a different species honestly

By the way I am so NW that I look out the window and see the sea so everything feels SouthEast to me, takes 3 hours to get to Manchester at least

Liverpool up to Cumbria, and across til it hits Yorkshire. The North East, where I live, starts at Darlington and goes up to the Borders. Yorkshire is an entity of its own

Yorkshire is an entity of its own

Yep

I work in the Leeds office of a national organisation. Until fairly recently we were part of "North East Region". If you sllit Engkand up into quarters down the middle and across, Leeds does just about fall into the NE, but it's just not right. Nobody agreeed with it, particularly not my Sheffielder FiL or Northumbrian friends.

The region has been renamed "Yorkshire and the Northeast". Doesn't really trip off the tongue, but at least it's accurate!

Manchester and Liverpool absolutely are the north-west.

I don't understand why people are saying they aren't. They absolutely are.

Liverpool is the midlands, not the north-anything. We live in Northumberland and are about 60 miles south of the border with Scotland. This is the north of England. It starts in North Yorkshire. Liverpool is about 150 miles south of us. It is the Midlands. So is Manchester.
Cumbria is the North-West

Actually, this is how it is:
Scottish border down to Durham is the true North. The line that divides the North from the South runs from Kendal to Durham. The kingdom of the North is sub-divided on a line from Carlsle to Durham . To the west of that line is the North-West and to the east is the North-East- also known as God's own country.

Anything below that is the South.
North and West Yorkshire are the north of the South.
I also know of the Midlands as an area of the South.

Also official population map of the North West. Definitely has liverpool, Manchester and chester on.

NW is definitely Cumbria, that's where I am, we definitely don't think as Manchester and Liverpool as being NW! They're in the middle

They may not be North West of where an individual is. But officially, Liverpool and Manchester ARE DEFINITELY the North West of ENGLAND.

Sorry, was my aimed at anybody rather everyone telling me I don't live in the NW because I absolutely do. Says so on the telebox every night, North West Tonight.

Was my = wasn't

Cumbria, Lancashire and merseyside I think.

I live in Cumbria

Sorry should have said greater Manchester too although I thought that would be covered by Lancashire?

Definitely count Manchester as NW

I'm sandbach too! (Waves)

I'm in the North West (Greater Manchester), BEST region of the UK

Just reading the thread, I cannot believe people think Manchester and Liverpool are not in the North West? They absolutely are, our government seat, TV, Police/Fire/Ambulance are North West England.

Dear everyone kicking off at those saying we don't think Manchester and Liverpool are NW. We know they are. It's called humour

Because they are so far away it just doesn't feel like it at all