Where does " The North" start

[jd312]

Preston Manor

 

[Razzoo]

Somewhere around Mansfield is my guess

 

[Mackenzie]

Draw a line from the north Wales coast across the country, above that line is north. Draw a line between Cardigan and Ipswich, above that is midlands, below it is south.

 

[HastingsSeagull]

Anything north of Watford Gap services

This!

 

[Simster]

Anyone who has "enjoyed" that smug, patronising book Pies And Prejudice will know that apparently it begins at Crewe going North West and Sheffield going north/north east.

 

[banjo]

North of the South Downs.

This.

 

[pasty]

Correct!

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Brilliant

 

[Berty23]

I live in Warwick and we are very much midlands but I travel a fair bit and have a few rules with geography. I don't think these are far wrong.

Going down the m5 it becomes the West Country when you reach Gloucester.

Going up the m6 becomes north after stoke (Crewe and Nantwich)

Going up the m1 it becomes north after Derby so I would class Mansfield as north (although in notts)

Going down the m40 when I hit Bicester I class as south

M1 south of Milton Keynes is the south.

Going it becomes the east when you go past Kettering on the a14 - this bit is best avoided.


Other than that I grew up in south Devon so actually reaching dartmoor is the north.

 

[glasfryn]

plylons on the M23

 

[Lovecake]

Went to uni in Nottingham so I say anything North of Nottingham as that's central

 

[screamadelica]

Any one residing north of the south downs is a dirty northern Barstad

 

[portslade seagull]

Patcham

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

Hurstpierpoint

 

[Eddiespearritt]

If the north begins at Crawley, where are the Midlands ? It is a strange concept - in Staffordshire you're in the Midlands, but Cheshire in the north. Same with North Lincolnshire and Humberside. I get the BBC South sports coverage, and I find it really odd that they talk about the league clubs in their "region" - which are Portsmouth, Southampton, Oxford, Swindon and ...... the bloody MK Dons. Bizarre. Brighton don't get coverage on BBC South however.

 

[Ali_rrr]

Anything past Milton Keynes for me, that is when people start talking funny.

This.

 

[Hastings woody]

Anywhere in this country from Hastings apart from Brighton.

 

[Hockley Blues]

Anything north of Watford Gap services

This.

 

[Frutos]

Old Shoreham Road is the border.

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Old Shoreham Road is the border.

 

[stripeyshark]

For me anywhere past the downs is up north but THE North is anything North and West of a line that runs roughly from Norwich to Gloucester

Behind the goal to Gus' left.

 

[Max Paper]

i live in Crawley and I considered myself "Northern"

Haha