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.

I'm in Staffordshire. I class us as the Midlands. Anything up from us the North and below us the South

Northern England starts about Sheffield upwards IMO. Perhaps not geographically but Yorkshire feels like the north (I say that as a Northumbrian).

Stoke, Nottingham, they are Midlands.
But they are definitely not south.
Stoke is Midlands, Banbury is Midlands, but Stoke is North and Banbury is South.

Roughly from Liverpool to Hull but it's not a straight line. Sheffield can just about squeak in.

North Wales is Flintshire, Denbighshire and Caernafonshire and Anglesey.

Dunno about Scotland.

H is from the South and I'm from the North. We consider Birmingham the middle
I'm further North but I would consider Liverpool and Manchester to be northern cities

Well we are here about on the South Coast ,so anything really! I personally think anything north of Watford Gap .

Mrsjayy

*Do people from Birmingham say they are Northeners?

No. They're Midlanders*

Fair enough

Draw a line between Liverpool and Hull and that’s what I consider to be the north.

Family in Scotland think England is the divide so only Scotland is the North
I guess those in the Highlands have a different view

@KikiniBamalam

East Midlands, midlands, is definitely north in my book.

How does that work? It's literally labelled the Midlands as is the Mid Lands as I'm the middle? So not north or south, the middle.

@Cailleachian

Anywhere past Crianlarich

I'd agree with this. I'd probably say Tyndrum though! Not that there's much in it.

Roughly from Liverpool to Hull but it's not a straight line. Sheffield can just about squeak in.

That cuts off Cheshire. I know it has posh bits, but it's still north.

Stoke, Nottingham, they are Midlands.

But they are definitely not south.

Well no, because they're Midlands

@Buffaloskull

Anything north of the river Tyne.

The clearly correct answer

At Bournemouth football games we used to sing ‘you dirty Northern bastards’ at Southampton fans...

That aside, to me it’s north of around Stoke or Derby.

I really think it depends on where you are from.

Me- South of London anything past the Watford Gap
Partner - Derby Anything past Yorkshire
Best Friend - Yorkshire - Scotland, till she moved to the highlands and now its probably the Artic

Sheffield and above.

Sheffield and up

@SleepingStandingUp

Stoke, Nottingham, they are Midlands.

But they are definitely not south.

Well no, because they're Midlands

The Midlands is a place!! People always forget about us

My Mum came from Berwick on Tweed.

I'd call that and above it as "up north" as we're in Gloucestershire.

I think this map is correct.

Anywhere North of Stoke.

South starts at Manchester to me.

Norf of the Watford Gap init

North of Nottingham area.