What’s the furthest north in the UK you’ve been? Where do you think the north starts?

[BarrelOfOtters]

Prompted by a friend who has never been north of Birmingham and thinks of that as North.

orkney for me.

I’m sure personally that Derby is north, not in a geographical sense but in an accent and what they call bread rolls sense.

I like the 'bread rolls' sense. I'm a bap girl myself.

No. Derby is in the East Midlands.

Source : Me. I was born in Derby & grew up in Derbyshire, mi duck.

I know where it is geographically. But it feels a bit different to that. My husbands best friend is from Derby! He also says things like duck (and calls bread a cob) and to me that is really northern.

@PuttingDownRoots

i think if you were to tell people in Sheffield that they’re southern they’d tell you to F* off…😁

Starts once you past Cambridge, Peterborough is north to me!

If we're talking UK then I'd say anything above Yorkshire (so Durham, Northumberland, Cumbria) and all of Scotland of course.

If you're talking UK I'd say anything above Leeds (but I live much further north so I know that's skewed) I suppose I'm reality Sheffield is probably the very southernmost part of the north.

Furthest north I've been is John O'Groats.
I think the North starts around Manchester( I'm Scottish so really don't know)

The only people who think this live in London/ the SE.

I don’t even know where Watford is, other than somewhere near the M1.

The other side of the question is: where does The South start?

😂@Dotjones Birmingham really is definitely not ‘the north’ - do you think the fact it’s in a region called the West Midlands might give you a clue to where it is?

If you still need help - here’s another clue: Birmingham is not in ‘the north’ or ‘the south’ of England.

The irony is... I live near Doncaster! Its not Southern exactly, just not 100% Northern.

I live one side of the Yorkshire- Nottinghamshire border, my best mate lives 3 miles away on the other side... I think its the saying that one of us lives in the North and the other in the South is just wierd. Its a continuum not a line.

One of neighbours walks his pet ferret on a lead, we have cheap house prices and have an annual Yorkshire pudding making competition. But I can reach London a lot quicker than I could the Scottish border.

Watford gap is a village in Northamptonshire. And also the name of a service station that on the M1. This is where the service station is.

Newport pagnell (which someone else mentioned) is just a north of Milton Keynes. And another M1 service station.

Cape Wrath.

I'm from Merseyside and I think north starts at Crewe

Furthest South... Portsmouth or St Ives... not sure which is more southern.

South starts below Worcestershire.

Thank goodness for that! I’d be devastated not to be classed as a northerner!

The Notth starts where people usually vote Labour. ( last GE an exception)

I grew up with road signs saying ‘THE SOUTH. Carlisle’. 🤷🏻‍♀️

All of England is south if you’re in Scotland.

Another Scottish person here. Furthest North - Orkney; where the North begins - Inverness. 😉

Perhaps 'the north' is down to and including areas in which people with the local accent might actually say 'oop north' or "t' North"?

Aberdeen on the East and Fort William on the West.

North is North of Watford, obvs.

East Ham then.

Furthest North I have been is Fraserburgh.

In my view:
The North of England is Leeds up.
The North West of England is different to the North and it's Liverpool, Manchester, Lancashire, Cumbria, Cheshire.
I'm not really sure where Sheffield fits in.
Underneath all that is the Midlands which includes Derbyshire until it gets to The South and I have no idea where that starts.
The furthest North in the UK I have been is central Scotland.

OP clearly states United Kingdom in the thread title.

Not England which isn't the UK itself.

For the UK's north, you draw a line from Northern Ireland's southern border right across to England's north west and north east.

Everything above that is north.

From there south to Fishgard in Wales across to Gloucester and Luton is the UKs midlands. Anything below that is the UKs south.