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’d say North of England starts just below Sheffield/Rotherham on the East, and around the Cheshire area on the West side

Old Trafford or Alton Towers (I don't know which is further north) is the furthest north I've been.

North to me is Manchester/Hull/Liverpool and up. Live in the Midlands and furthest I've been up north is Newcastle (excluding Scotland though did pass through further north)

North starts at the Central Line.

Or more seriously a sort of wavy line encompassing Liverpool, Sheffield and Hull.

Furthest I've been is Edinburgh.

I live in the arse end of Devon. Anything above Bristol is arguably the north 😂

inverness.

I think north and south is a state of mind, not a position of geography in England I’m from the West Midlands. It most definitely doesn’t feel like the south there. So I say, Coventry and north.

John O Groats is the farthest I have been. North starts around Aviemore for me.

South Yorks to furthest Scotland is the north.

Glasgow is the furthest I've been (and I live in the north)

I agree with this, Yorkshire and Cheshire are the start of the North for me.

Birmingham isn't North. It's literally in the West Midlands.

This was asked before - about where the north starts - and there is an official answer. Think it might be Crewe, but I'll have to check...,

Oh, furthest North in England I've been is Newcastle. I've never been to Scotland.

Google tells me one division north/south is the severn-wash line. I've attached an image as this is how it is in my head.

Google does tell us there are various different interpretations though!

Stornoway, Isle of Lewis.

I know people call Derby Midlands too. I think the reason for debates are

1. Its so much father up to get to Newcastle that if you live there Shefflied must feel South.
2. Accents. Sheffield, Derby and even Leicester have 'northern vowels' e.g. 'oop' for 'up'. Birmingham doesn't. So it's not a hard boundary and geographically you wouldn't call Leicester North (I think that's where the Watford gap rule/joke might come from). It's a funny one!

Perth, Scotland

Anywhere past Birmingham = North
Anywhere past Reading = West
Norfolk/Suffolk = East

Not accurate but how my mind works :)
(London)

North starts on tother side of Leeds.

Ullapool is the furthest north I've been.
North starts at Pitlochry.
Can you tell I live in Scotland?

We live in Cheshire. South of us is Midlands. We see ourselves as the very south of the north.

Fort William
I think of Sheffield and up as being north.
Birmingham and Coventry most definitely Midlands!

This is so interesting, but it'd put Gloucestershire in the North?! That's going too far...

Cheshire is where it starts on the west side of England.
however I’m in Manchester and it takes an age to get to to Newcastle, you could forgive the geordies for thinking that Manchester is “south”

I think a lot of it hinges on whether you have a Midlands or not!

Well done for the clarification

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Northern England is sometimes defined jokingly as the area north of the Watford Gap between Northampton and Leicester[a] – a definition which would include much of the Midlands.[7][9] Various cities and towns have been described as or promoted themselves as the "gateway to the North", including Crewe,[10] Stoke-on-Trent,[11] and Sheffield.[12]^

River Tees mentioned a few times too. Not quite conclusive but some other options and maps of official region here; https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_England