To ask what you consider “The North”?

[Hairbrush123]

Just a post about being a Northerner/Southerner which made me think - what do you consider as “The North”? I’ve never had a solid answer for this and just wanted to know the general census on this.

Definitely above Manchester.

I'd say anywhere north of Northampton. Northampton is to me the start of the South and it's where people pronounce bath as barrrth.

Hampstead.

@funnylittlefloozie

Potters Bar and upwards. The North is a vast and sinister place.

Potters Bar 😆😆😆😆

For me, anything north of Birmingham is North.

Anything north of the Midlands is the North. South West and South East are the South. Midlands and East England are the Middle.

Birmingham and above

Sheffield up to scotland.

North of the Tees.

Without wishing to start a whole new debate, Nottingham is not The Midlands. It's the East Midlands. Two very distinct regions.

Nottingham and Derby aren't the North, but they share a lot of cultural references with the North. Like the way we say some words. And having chips with gravy.

I am from the Midlands but if you are reluctant to let us be distinct, I would much rather be classed as Northern rather than Southern. Anyone else agree? Strongly agree.

wtheck Funnily enough, I live in Derby and think just south of Birmingham is where my mind starts to think of 'the south'. Probably because I'm so rarely that far south anymore...

the border is at Salisbury.

Anything above The M4 is the Midlands and anything above Birmingham is the north ! In Wales everything above Aber is North . In Scotland everything above the central belt is North .

I am in Caithness, so Orkney, Shetland and Norway.

@PuppyMonkey

Without wishing to start a whole new debate, Nottingham is not The Midlands. It's the East Midlands. Two very distinct regions.

Nottingham and Derby aren't the North, but they share a lot of cultural references with the North. Like the way we say some words. And having chips with gravy.

I'd argue The Midlands is East and West officially, wiki agrees But most people say Midlands when they mean West and East Midlands when they mean East.

I'd love a bowl of chips, cheese and gravy right now

If you mean England then for me it would anything north of Derby or Nottingham. I am a southerner. Anything immediately below that is the Midlands or East Anglia.

The word "north" has now lost all meaning

I live in Perthshire.

The North to me is Caithness & Sutherland.

I don't think anyone would consider Wiltshire as part of the Midlands

Central TV used to have a Central South I think, which covered Oxford etc so I guess would also cover the northern parts of Wiltshire.

Well, we don't have Midlands Today in Derby and Nottingham. We have East Midlands Today. So there you have it.

The midlands and up.
Midlands are northern to me.

South Yorkshire and up - North
Oxfordshire, Bedfordshire and below - The South

Anything in between the Midlands.

I'm from Nottingham and often called a Northerner. Which true Northerners disagree with 🤣

Depends on where you're asking about, really? I live in Wales so I'd say anything above Dolgellau is gogledd. I assume, however, that this is Anglocentric (as usual) so probably north of Liverpool and Sheffield

Scotland isn't The North, it's an entirely different country consisting of low bits,
the posh bit,
the holiday bit,
the high bit and
the fringes of the known world bit

As a Scot this made me laugh!

Aberdeen is definitely North East, a whole other section of its own.

Everything below Dundee is "south" to us!

@PuppyMonkey

Well, we don't have Midlands Today in Derby and Nottingham. We have East Midlands Today. So there you have it.

Haha can't argue with the news

Anything above Nottingham is 'The North'. Manchester, Liverpool etc included. Nottingham, Birmingham etc is the Midlands. Oxford, London and below is 'The South'.