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.

The Cheshire/Staffordshire border is the North/Midlands border.

In my head, it's above Sheffield, Grimsby and Ellesmere Port, if I were to draw a line across the country. Ends at the Scottish border.

Inverness, Stirling, Aberdeen, the Highlands - but I live near Glasgow, so what some people will consider The North (Yorkshire, Cumbria, Northumberland, Cheshire, Merseyside etc) is the South, for us!

North: Nottingham, Sheffield, Yorkshire, Leeds, Manchester

South: Birmingham, Bristol, London, Cambridge

That's crazy. Never questioned it before.

@SocialAffairsAndWoodlandFolk

Well I'm currently sat in Chester, South of Ellesmere Port and very much in the North West of England.

When you're too far north to be included on a map of the UK, that's proper north, so Shetland = north, everywhere else is the south.

I'm in England and would considered anything above the Midlands to be in the north.
The name kind of makes sense to be - Midlands, so 'mid' country. Below is south, above is north.

I'm in Sheffield and classed as being in the north. I'd say all of Yorkshire is in northern England.

I'd class Scotland as north of England, but when thinking about north/south I'd count Scotland as a totally separate country, so would talk about south and north of Scotland.

@SleepingStandingUp

Those saying Birmingham, you do realise Birmingham is comparatively South in an area helpfully labelled for you as The Midlands because it's in the Middle

But many of us Southerners class the midlands as the southern part of the North..

@Diamondnights that's why we tried to label it helpfully for you with the word Mid in it. North. Midlands. South. There isn't a South-North.

I am from the North East and for me Manchester is the border country.

I live in Cornwall, so anywhere past Bristol is ‘up north’ to me

Aberdeen, Inverness, Dornoch, avimore

North of Stoke-on-Trent.

I wonder if other countries get as her up over their north and south.

I remember my friend from Nazare thinking similar things about Porto to what some northerners think of London.

I just love everywhere! I just want a cuddle!

@Oldpeoplesprinting

I saw a thread on here not that long ago with someone asking for good schools in the south west & someone said Putney 🤣 It’s all relative. I always think Oxford/Buckinghamshire/Northants are hard to pinpoint - not south, not the midlands, not south east either. Where are they?

Oxfordshire is in the South-East. The West Midlands begins in Warwickshire. The Brummie twang starts in earnest in Stratford-on-Avon. Northants is East Midlands.

@MiddleClassProblem

I wonder if other countries get as her up over their north and south.

I remember my friend from Nazare thinking similar things about Porto to what some northerners think of London.

I just love everywhere! I just want a cuddle!

Italians are even worse, but for them it’s the north that is wealthy & posh and the south which is poor & rough.

I once worked with a guy from Lugano which, he emphasised, is ‘near Switzerland’. When I told him I was going on holiday to Naples, he was horrified ; ‘It’s a crazy place, they are all criminals or peasants. You need to be careful’, he warned.

Sheffield and up

I meant Bergamo, not Lugano! Lugano is in Switzerland!

@Susie477

I meant Bergamo, not Lugano! Lugano is in Switzerland!

I googled the distance between the two and going by what some on this thread is they might as well be the same place 😂

Newcastle upwards

I don’t see Northants as the East Midlands. East Midlands is Notts, Derbyshire, Leicestershire.

Which country are you asking about ?

How can the Midlands also be the North? Isn't the clue in the name? I'm from Dorset and even I can work that out!!

I never get my head round that fact how southerners can think that places called "the West Midlands" and "the East Midlands" are in the north.

To me, the north starts when you get to Sheffield, the south starts when you get to the bottom of Northamptonshire.

I'm from the East Midlands, if it has to be a north, south divide, with no middle bit allowed, I identify more with being northern than southern.

Anything above Oxford. It's wild up there.