The great North/South divide

Tom BB

So then, where does the North start etc?

On the 'magnetic north' thread, someone suggested Stoke......well I'm from Stoke and reckon it is somewhere around here......although we are usually refered to as being in 'the Midlands'...

I went to Ludlow recently, and that is definitely 'the South'-not as friendly, poorer driving standards, cans of coke cost a quid etc

So, discuss

Nuggs

The North starts at Watford Gap. End of discussion.

essexian

I say when asked (which happens aaaallllll the time), that t'north starts north of Stone. So, to me, Stoke is the first major town (or five towns) in the North.

They talk funny there too.... The accent is different than here in Stafford.

Not sure where it starts in the East Midlands but I think Nottingham is in the north and Derby the South.

Pross

To me the north (of England) is anything north of a line from the Humber to the Dee.

Chip \'oyler

Anything North of Sheffield in my mind

simonaspinall

Chesterfield

spen666

The Tees is where the North Starts - hence why Middlesbrough is down south

bompington

Up here in Scotland we laugh at such petty distinctions, the most northerly dividing line mentioned so far is about 4 hours drive south of here.

heathy_76

Crewe is where the North begins.

Mettan

Mansfield and up.

spen666

Mettan wrote:

Mansfield and up.

Mansfield usually goes down

RichN95.

As far as I'm concerned, the dividing line is the M4. A little extreme, certainly, but I don't often go north of it

TheStone

Nuggs wrote:

The North starts at Watford Gap. End of discussion.

+ 1

Northampton = South
Coventry = North.

End of.

2Phat4Rapha

Anything above Truro's "up north" for me.

S'pose it's all relative man, as Einstein might have said

ratsbeyfus

Streatham

Wooliferkins

ratsbeyfus wrote:

Streatham

Technically the southern edge of the DMZ that runs up to said Watford gap and encapsulates that Lunnon place.

seemunkee

At the Mason-Dixon line of course.

proto

I'm from Birmingham and my mate from Chesterfield reckoned I lived in 'no man's land'

Warwickshire Whizzer

proto wrote:

I'm from Birmingham and my mate from Chesterfield reckoned I lived in 'no man's land'

No one wants the Brummies.

To me, if you put gravy on your chips, you're a Northener.

Dunkindiver

Ringwood!

Lazywheeler

Surely the question is irrelevant. It's outside of London, who cares.

Frank the tank

Gloucester city play football in the blue square bet NORTH division. :shock:

daviesee

Georaphically the divide is supposed to be around Leeds.

Ask someone from Orkney though. We are all just from the big island in the south :twisted:

Crapaud

Lazywheeler wrote:

Surely the question is irrelevant. It's outside of London, who cares.

It's important because we need to know where to build 'The Wall' ©

shockedsoshocked

spen666 wrote:

The Tees is where the North Starts - hence why Middlesbrough is down south

Fighting talk!

AndyF16

Any fule kno' the arrow straight line from just north of Southwold to Holyhead is the dividing line - fact :idea:

Tom BB

Warwickshire Whizzer wrote:

proto wrote:

I'm from Birmingham and my mate from Chesterfield reckoned I lived in 'no man's land'

No one wants the Brummies.

To me, if you put gravy on your chips, you're a Northener.

I agree with all of that.......no one wants brummies :twisted: and northerners definitely put gravy on chips.....why dont southerners? Wasn't there also talk of a pie sandwich on here recently? made me smile!

Turns out Stoke is definitely in the North....we all talk proper weird for a start-one of the key traits of someone from the norf.

dirkdiggler69

i thought the vikings raped and pillaged there way down as far as newcastle on one side and chester on the other?
apparently if you do a DNA test you can tell whether you are northern ( viking )
or not ( southern probably french )

crumbschief

I thought it was just between Norfolk and Suffolk,but hey,whatever you ask I ain't getting on no damn plane.

brin

Geographically, a place near Coventry was deemed the centre of England - think there is a monument there? however after further surveys calculated by using centroids in the beginning of 2000 (extreme offshore islands included) a small farm near Leicester now sits smack in the middle of England.

spen666

ShockedSoShocked wrote:

spen666 wrote:

The Tees is where the North Starts - hence why Middlesbrough is down south

Fighting talk!

P*ss off back to yorkshire Southern puff