Where does the real north begin?

[Mallard]

Oxfordshire

North of that is 'north' and south is 'south'
Lincolnshire I would think of as 'east' just to confuse the issue.

eta. forgot to include Notts

Surely Oxfordshire is the South both geographically and certainly culturally. Gloucester is in the South West surely?

 

[blossie33]

Surely Oxfordshire is the South both geographically and certainly culturally. Gloucester is in the South West surely?

Hmmm.... bit debatable I agree but I have always thought of Gloucester and Oxford as being Midlands.
That's just my personal opinion though.

 

[timebomb]

I only came here to find a thread I need to read since I'm going to the north for about the third time ever soon.

However the title of this thread interested me so I clicked.......anyway......somebody take EAST ANGLIA out of the south please on all these maps.

 

[Mallard]

However the title of this thread interested me so I clicked.......anyway......somebody take EAST ANGLIA out of the south please on all these maps.

Where would you class East Anglia as being time?

 

[Louis MacNeice]

The Weald.

Louis MacNeice

 

[WouldBe]

Where would you class East Anglia as being time?

East. Obviously.

 

[fractionMan]

anywhere above bristol is up north as far as I'm concerned.

 

[Mallard]

anywhere above bristol is up north as far as I'm concerned.

 

[timebomb]

East. Obviously.

Exactly. It stands alone.

 

[heinous seamus]

made a map, brum is further north than I thought:

Quite close to the border. Want to come up to my bit?

 

[Aphex]

Sheffield.

and being Norvern is more about an attitude than it is geography

and by your reckoning firky. i'm not even IN the north...

Yeah I'd have to say us Sheffielders are where the North starts.

 

[8ball]

Yeah I'd have to say us Sheffielders are where the North starts.

Actually, yeah - I think I'd put the border there too.

 

[skaboy]

i would say anywhere further north than sheffield. I got family who live in both sheffield and chesterfield, and the ones that live in sheffield consider themselves from the north and the ones from chesterfield consider themselves from the east midlands.

Even they are a stones throw apart from each other!

 

[skaboy]

Also, i think us midlanders are in the best position to judge where the north starts and where the south starts, seeing as we are in the middle of both of you.

Im living in plymouth at the moment and when we(leicester city) played plymouth i got called a dirty northern bastard! Ignorant janners