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

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BarrelOfOtters · 21/09/2023 07:10

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

orkney for me.

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ThinWomansBrain · 21/09/2023 22:18

I've been to Aberdeen and Inverness, not sure which is most north
I think of "The North" as starting sort of Wakefield - because I often go there to visit YSP, so I can picture that in my head - so I suppose anywhere higher on the map than the top of Wales.

You can tell I'm great at Geography!

DuchessOfSausage · 21/09/2023 22:21

Inverness is further north than Aberdeen

Grantanow · 21/09/2023 22:22

Edinburgh. Ox carts probably begin at Watford.

Capturetotalelotion · 21/09/2023 22:23

Sandwood Bay, for me the North starts at/after Nottingham.

jcyclops · 21/09/2023 22:38

Furthest North I've been is Dingwall (15 miles North of Inverness)

For me the line between Midlands and North runs Skegness - Mansfield - Crewe - Chester.

Surely the Peak District is in the North and it starts just above a line between Derby and Stoke.

EggInANest · 21/09/2023 22:58

JudgeJ · 21/09/2023 21:44

Surely being North or South depends where you're standing, if you're in Shetland then almost all the UK is the South.

North or south relative to where you are, but I live in London and am well aware that some places both North and West of where I live are ‘in the South East’.

DuchessOfSausage · 21/09/2023 23:03

The Peak District is in both the North and the Midlands.

SoShallINever · 21/09/2023 23:09

Furthest north I've been is Ben Nevis.
The north starts at Crewe.

GarethSouthgatesWaistcoat · 21/09/2023 23:10

Aberdeen.

I'm a southerner but the north starts at the southern outskirts of Sheffield where my relatives live ☺️

I've lived in the midlands and Leicester/Derby/Nottingham aren't north imo though Notts is always contentious!

I'd say the bottom of the Peak District (Derby/Stoke) is midlands (just) and the upper half is 'the north' 😁

ETA How funny, I didn't RTWT and hadn't realised the Peak District was being discussed!

Willyoujustbequiet · 22/09/2023 00:32

MereDintofPandiculation · 21/09/2023 20:30

Most of the population of Yorkshire lives south of Scotch Corner. So if not the north, where do you place Manchester, Liverpool and most of Yorkshire? You seem to agree that Yorkshire is not in the Midlands, so where is it, if not the north?

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Yorkshire is north. Anything further south than Yorkshire isn't.

If Manchester is 200 miles south of me and much nearer London than it is to me then yeah I suppose geographically and numerically even it is the Midlands from my area.

It's about perspective. People in these parts laugh at the suggestion that Manchester or Liverpool is north. As I'm sure Highlanders consider Newcastle the South.

thaegumathteth · 22/09/2023 00:36

Elgin

North of UK? Probably Perth. North of England ? Probably Manchester

Willyoujustbequiet · 22/09/2023 00:36

LuluBlakey1 · 21/09/2023 21:46

Shetland

Pretty accurate!

Charlattanus23 · 22/09/2023 00:54

Scottish Highlands/Outer Hebrides. If only there were jobs there in my line of work I'd move in a heartbeat... I grew up in Newcastle and currently live in Greater Manchester and something I find quite hilarious, having lived over half my life in the West Country, is that Manchester doesn't seem to think it's the north. (Since the bit where I currently live bears a terrifying resemblance to Royston Casey I've come to the conclusion it's just a parallel universe.)

Charlattanus23 · 22/09/2023 00:59

*Vasey!!!!

bluesatin · 22/09/2023 01:00

John o' Groats

I have always lived on the South coast. Anywhere above the M4 is the North, IMO.

DeeCeeCherry · 22/09/2023 01:24

Edinburgh. The North starts just beyond Leeds, I thought

Glendaruel · 22/09/2023 01:35

Been to orkney.

if you mean North of england, then it's Cumbria,Northumberland, tyne and wear, Lancashire and North Yorkshire for me. They are quite different in character, especially as transport infrastructure slows everything down. If you ever have to travel on a66 on Friday changeover day you will curse that it's not duel carriageway

CrushingOnRubies · 22/09/2023 06:32

John O Groats

North is anywhere above the Humber

Eleganz · 22/09/2023 07:21

Shetland.

The North means different things depending on context.

For me the true north of England is Cumbria, Northumberland, Durham, Yorkshire, Lancashire, Greater Manchester, Merseyside and the northern parts of Cheshire and Derbyshire near Manchester.

However the economic north is anything north of the Trent. The northern midlands is in the same boat as northern England in terms of being forgotten about and underinvested in.

Eleganz · 22/09/2023 07:23

Glendaruel · 22/09/2023 01:35

Been to orkney.

if you mean North of england, then it's Cumbria,Northumberland, tyne and wear, Lancashire and North Yorkshire for me. They are quite different in character, especially as transport infrastructure slows everything down. If you ever have to travel on a66 on Friday changeover day you will curse that it's not duel carriageway

The worst thing about the A66 is that they have dualled little sections of it to give you a flavour of what it would be like if it were a dual carriageway before you get stuck behind a farm vehicle for miles.

Moonsoup · 22/09/2023 07:24

Glendaruel · 22/09/2023 01:35

Been to orkney.

if you mean North of england, then it's Cumbria,Northumberland, tyne and wear, Lancashire and North Yorkshire for me. They are quite different in character, especially as transport infrastructure slows everything down. If you ever have to travel on a66 on Friday changeover day you will curse that it's not duel carriageway

The A66 is one of my least favourite roads! A shame, as it has great views.

KellyanneConway · 22/09/2023 07:27

The North west starts at Crewe, Cheshire is a Northern county. The North East East, where Derbyshire ends and Yorkshire and Greater Manchester start. Derbyshire and Staffordshire are in the Midlands

Coffeaddict · 22/09/2023 07:28

Furthest I've been is Loch lomond just north of glasgow . I would say Newcastle is North but leeds/ Manchester is midland so between those 2

autumn1610 · 22/09/2023 07:52

Edinburgh or Mull not sure which is higher up.

Im from West Midlands and moved to Sheffield I would say that is the start of the North for me. I work in Derby and I would say still Midlands. My partner is from Sheffield and I would say he classes himself as northern, which I think the majority of born and bred types from Sheffield would. You don’t seem to get that same northern and proud vibe where I work in Derby

DuchessOfSausage · 22/09/2023 09:09

@autumn1610 , Mull