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.

Ohh Dunnet Head is actually where we ended up! It was many moons ago, you just reminded me.

We always think of the North as the point at which you need an extra jumper. For us up around Nottingham. Yes, I know technically that's the midlands, but it's always so much colder up there than Surrey. Birmingham also cold, wet, grey. Manchester etc definitely North by weather standards.

Furthest up the country i've been is Liverpool and i got a bit dizzy.

The North is anywhere higher up than Watford 😀

Farthest north I've been is Otkney.

As a northerner, I generally think of anything past York as "the south", so I guess inverse that.

My litmus test is anywhere people respond to Tina Turner, simply the best with "South Cleveland garages" is northern.

Feel a little sorry for the Midlands though, neither the north or south seem to want them.

Since the thread question is about where the UK's north begins, it's south Down in Northern Ireland across to Barrow-in-Furness and Scarborough up to Scotland & rest of Northern Ireland plus the various islands in that area, e.g. Rathlin, Skye, Orkney, etc.

North Ronaldsay.

I think the north starts at Inverness, but I'm in Scotland.

Nottingham is midlands, Sheffield is north. i think that the North starts past Nottingham

Yep
Eshaness Lighthouse in the Shetland for me...

The Butt of Lewis.

'The north' , as pp have said, from an English perspective is roughly the line between the Mersey and the Humber. Very obviously not in the context of the U.K./GB/British Isles - the centre points of those are in various parts of Lancashire. Which means that by either criterion, cumbria, Northumbria, Durham, Tyne&Wear and most of North Yorkshire are 'north'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CentrepointssoftheeUnited_Kingdom

The centre points are probably a bit further west than many people would guess too... they're all in what most English people are likely to call 'the North West'.

The furthest I´ve been is Wallsend, and I believe the North starts around Sheffield, but that´s just me.

Orkney Islands, beautiful place, great scuba diving

I'm not sure 'the North' minds losing a person who judges it on the basis of one place in the Midlands. 😂

As someone who lives in the southwest corner of Devon, anything over the Devon border is north to me 😆

The most North I have travelled is to St Andrews in Scotland.

@ISeeMisledPeople wins!

Furthest north I've been is Arbroath. Anything above Exeter is north

I live in Bham. North starts at Stoke I would say.

Furthest north I've been is Glencoe.

The North starts in Sheffield. Although it look Midlandy on the map, it just feels Northern, culturally.

In the UK, the furthest north I've been is Unst, Shetland - which is the northernmost inhabited location in the UK.

In England I think of the north as being anything from north Derbyshire upwards really. In Scotland I think of the the north as starting around Dundee/Perth.

Great question! I've always wondered about this. I live on the South Coast, but have family in Liverpool and Doncaster... I consider The North to start roughly somwhere around Rotherham because Liverpool isn't The North (it's its own place, in my head) but Doncaster definitely is. Weird.

My dad was from Teeside, and I've always thought of that as the southern edge of The North as well... I've just looked at a map and that's clearly total nonsense.

Might as well go with Watford, like everyone else down here. 😂

(FWIW: Skye is the furthest I've ever been)

Below Barrow-in-Furness and Scarborough to Fishgard in Wales, Hereford, Gloucester & Luton is the UKs Midlands.

Uk south is below Fishgard in Wales, Hereford, Gloucester & Luton. So, south Wales and the entire leg of England.

The furthest north I have been in the UK is Fort William.
I consider the north of England starts at Lancashire and Yorkshire and includes everything north of there. Living in the south, I find many people call the midlands north, which it is not.

I live in south London so the north begins when I cross the Thames! Realistically the Watford Gap. The furthest north I’ve been is Kylescu in Scotland.

I've been to Dunnett Head at the tip of Scotland.

Northern Scotland begins past Stirling.