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.

In England I say anywhere North of Cheshire is ' The North', ' The Midlands' start in Staffordshire and ' The South' is Bristol and below😀

Was going to say Perth way but I’m in the central belt of Scotland

@SleepingStandingUp 🤣 It’s warmer down here though lol. That might be our only gain...

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

Inverness /Aberdeen

North of Watford gap services.

[quote MiddleClassProblem]@SleepingStandingUp 🤣 It’s warmer down here though lol. That might be our only gain...[/quote]
They don't have gravy in their chippies!! It's bad enough there's a lack of cheese in the Midlands ones.. I miss the North

Manchester is definitely north. Sheffield is north. Chester is just about north. Stoke, Nottingham, they are Midlands. Lincoln's a weird one - midlands or 'south accidentally misplaced on the map'. Draw a line through Milton Keynes across the map, below that is south.

Of course Manchester is Northern. What else is it? It's not in the Midlands!

"The North" or "Northern" are generally used to refer to England and English people. I'm from Huddersfield originally and consider somewhere between Stoke or Sheffield the start of the North.

Yorkshire chip shops don't have puddings or pies. What's that about? You have to drive all the way home before you can get some supper.

Inverness and points north. I would put Aberdeen in the northeast, not the proper north.

The bit beyond the wall.

Past Nottingham. Sheffield is very definitely north

@DoingItMyself

Manchester is definitely north. Sheffield is north. Chester is just about north. Stoke, Nottingham, they are Midlands. Lincoln's a weird one - midlands or 'south accidentally misplaced on the map'. Draw a line through Milton Keynes across the map, below that is south.

Lincoln is an odd one. I'd say Midlands but I'd say Skegness is North

Birmingham's north of Oxford though 😁. So definitely North...

@MightNeedABiggerGlass

Depends where we are talking about, in my humble opinion Scotland would be the Highlands, England would be the Midlands, UK would be Yorkshire.

I'm from Yorkshire and would describe myself as a northerner, plus I'll talk to anyone anywhere about anything

‘Scotland’ and ‘the Highlands’ are definitely not interchangeable. The Highlands is the area north west of the highland boundary fault.

Stockport and above. I grew up there and thank God I got to leave it and move to the south coast.

Anywhere above Crewe. Draw a line from Crew and that's North. Although technically Shropshire might be North, I don't think of it as.

@Ponoka7

Anywhere above Crewe. Draw a line from Crew and that's North. Although technically Shropshire might be North, I don't think of it as.

Shropshire is Midlands

@MishMashMummy The Highlands is what Americans think Scotland is like 😂🥄🥣

Anywhere north of Michael Wood Services on the M5. Only joking! (I live near Bristol).
In my head I think of 2 places as The North depending on whether we are in England or Scotland, where my dh comes from.

I England its anywhere north of Manchester but in Scotland its anywhere north of Loch Ness

Anything north of Oxford.

Starts at about Manchester.

@OwlBeThere

The bit beyond the wall.

In your garden?

depends if you are being binary just north/south. Or whether breaking into other areas e.g north/Midlands/ South etc