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 have been to John O Groats & the Outer Hebrides Islands

I have been to Iceland too

Furthest north: Inverness

North starts: Yorkshire

Inverness is the furthest north I’ve been in the Uk. I’m a Yorkshire lass living in the NE. The north for me starts at the southern border of Yorkshire. And cuts across the UK roughly horizontally. Though the NW on the other side of the Pennines dips a bit lower and is still Northern.

Furthest north: Unst (Shetland).
North starts at: Sheffield.

Furthest north visited: Hermaness nature reserve, Unst, Shetland

Lived in Country Durham and Tyne and Wear.

Brought up to believe the north starts at the Tyne.

Compromise with my southern DH and children:

Level with Wales = Midlands.
North of Wales is the north.
When very homesick I will accept anywhere that understands you can put gravy on chips.

Shetland.

The north starts about Inverness for me.

Northern point of Shetland - beautiful and closer to Norway than Westminster 🤔

The north starts in South Yorkshire
The far north is after Glasgow / Edinburgh

However MPs and weather people think the north starts at Watford gap - and possibly sooner

I've been to Inverness and Skye.

I think of the North as from Sheffield. Used to live in East Midlands so definitely has to be further north than Nottingham, Derby etc.

Thurso, or Durness.

The true north starts at The (Hadrian's) Wall, of course.

Good luck with convincing most Yorkshire film that they are not northern

The North starts at Congleton.

Furthest north - Skye I think.

The poster is clearly referring to the UK. Not England.

Describing someone from Yorkshire as 'northern' is referring to the North of England.

I'd have a giggle or two if they failed basic geography, tbh!

In terms of the UK's north, Yorkshire is in the midlands.

Again, the UK's north is NOT the same thing as England's north. Nor is the UK....England. 🤦‍♂️

Oh, as for furthest north I've been in the UK....that would be Golspie! Tiny village in Scotland.

The Shetland Island with the most northerly post office in the U.K. Unst, IIRC.

IMO the north starts at around Sheffield.

You are allowed to question the premise of the OP, you know 😉

I'm saying that talking about 'the North of the UK' is

1. Not something that people do
2. Would be completely artificial as a distinction, as it would involve lumping the northen sliver of England in with Scotland for no discernible reason.

Furthest north I've been is Orkney.
When I lived in Caithness our relatives in Glasgow used to talk about going "up North" to visit us. As other pps have said anywhere in England was down south.

I would say the north of England starts at Lancashire/North Yorkshire.

Apparently Haltwhistle in Northumberland is the centre of Britain (at least according to the signs there😁) Whether that is geographically accurate I have no idea.

Scottish highlands Skye, always said south was below watford gap north was above watford gap dont know why but seems to be what people think

Ullapool. It rained for pretty much the whole two weeks. Lots of newts.

I'm pretty sure that people that there are a much higher proportion of people that have been to Shetland posting on this thread than there are on most threads... 😄

Watford Gap services.

North to me is from Derby onwards.
Im originally from Staffordshire, a town very very close to Derby and to me that’s the midlands.
Now in Hertfordshire and DH always jokes anything past Luton is the North to him.

Furthest North I’ve been is to Newcastle.

Well I’ve been to Glasgow but furthest north in England would be Newcastle.

I just asked DH and he reckons the M4 is the divider between north and south England.
He is from Scunthorpe and classes that as northern obviously.

When we say the north we generally mean northern England....not Northern UK...then we would just say Scotland...there is more of the world north of that too.

But Birmingham is not in Northern England
It may be north depending where you start from.