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.

York upwards I would say.

@SunnySpills

The midlands and up. Midlands are northern to me.

The clue is in the name. It's in the middle. Mid lands. Not north. Not south. Middle. Like the centre of the country.

In England, anything north of the Midlands and belie Scotland.

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I consider Manchester to be slightly chancing it as “northern” but I am from Newcastle. I concede that the general ‘Sheffield and up’ is where most people start to draw the line.

Orkney, Shetland.

Manchester upwards.
Always think of The Fall song 'Hit the North'.

@1990s

Sheffield and above.

Yes, ( I'm from Sheffield), but the dividing line is difficult to say - we are very generous people in the North so we allow some of the parts of Chesterfield (Derbys.) to be honorary Northerners but Mansfield (Notts.) is Midlands.

The dividing line is somewhere between the 2 - possibly the M1? Similarly we allow Hathersage honorary ( Derbys) maybe but Bakewell ( Derbys.) not so much.

Further research is needed. PhD application anyone?

Basingstoke

@audweb

Cairngorms and above. Aberdeen, Inverness etc and above.

Yes. For me anything above Fort William

I'm in the NE are we say anything North of Watford!!

I’m from cornwall so anything past plymouth

The north of England for me starts with Yorkshire. Though it's fluid because Derbyshire is in my head part of the Midlands, but parts of it are further north than Sheffield. My dad was from the northern Peak District and he considered himself a northerner.

But it's about much more than geography isn't it?

Just like Cornwall is as far south in England as you can go, but isn't considered to be the south of England.

Manchester to the Scottish border is north England. Scotland obviously is also north for those of us in Lancashire/Yorkshire and up, but definitely talk about it terms of another country. In Scotland north would be highlands and up.

County Durham, Tyne and Wear, Tynside,Northumberland, and anything North of there.

Everything above Birmingham.

Anything above Aberdeen

I'm a Londoner, and remember the Seventies group: "Hatfield and the North". Though I've never knowingly been to Hatfield, anything north of there has always been the north to me

@HunterHearstHelmsley

Sheffield and up to me.

I'm from the Midlands and hate been told I'm from "the North". No. Just no.

Why? What's wrong with the North?

Anywhere north of Birmingham.

Anything above Birmingham is North to me, I'm in the South West.

Sheffield, Manchester and Liverpool and everything upwards from there

I find it very odd when people in Yorkshire and the likes think they are in the North 🤔

The correct north/south line is drawn between the point where the River Severn becomes the Severn Estuary and the Wash. By this method:

East Anglia = South, Wales = North.
Gloucester, Northampton and Peterborough are just in the South. Newport (Wales), Coventry, Leicester and Grantham are North.

Of course, people from Yorkshire and up consider people from anywhere south of the Humber as "southern scum" and likewise people on the south coast consider anyone north of London a ferret-in-trousers pigeon-racing sheep-molester.

North of Stoke.