North and South, a bit of fun😁
After reading an article about “The North”, it has set us pondering on what (geographically) this means to us. All just a bit of fun, and apologies to friends and acquaintances North of the Border, and West of the Border, but I was wondering how and where others make that definition of “The North”. It ends at the Scottish Border, but where does it start for you? We live in South Yorks, and still think we are “North”. But parts of Derbyshire and indeed Lincolnshire are geographically further North than us on a map.
Are the Cotswold’s SW🤔
Is Dorset South or SW🤔
Do you use any defining features such as rivers or hill ranges to define areas? Crossing the Tamar still remains an “ahhh” moment for us…..🤣
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I've always found it easiest, in my own mind, to take a straight line across, west to east, to include an area that would have somewhere like Buxton at its southern most point and the border with Scotland as the northern edge. This would be Northern England.
Anything below Buxton to Oxford and across as the Midlands excluding the obvious area of East Anglia, which is a separate entity.
The area west of Dorset but including Dorset itself, and north to South Gloucestershire is South West England. The remainder is South East England with a separate but unspecified area of "Home Counties"
There will probably be Geordies who think Sunderland is the South but I just put that down to a lack of good Geography teachers in Tyneside.🤣
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The view from down here in the far SW is probably a little different to most. The further SW you go, the more the boundary moves with you until, according to folk living in the Scilly Isles, only they can be considered the true SW.😄
My view - Cotswolds in the SW? Nah, they’re the Midlands😀. West Dorset is in the SW but the east of the county isn’t proper SW. Somerset, Devon and Cornwall are definitely in. Anywhere the other side of Bristol is somewhere else and the North starts once we pass Birmingham.
Thanks, TDA, we need a giggle 😂😂😂
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Yes, anyone living on the outer edges is likely to have a different view. Cotswolds are Midlands to us as well, East Anglia (Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex) definitely “East”. We don’t feel really North, until we cross the Tee's. Scarborough and Whitby feel “North” rather than East though. East is Bridlington and Hull🤣
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Well really to a Geordie Gateshead is the south WN!
But also Geordies and Mackems are really two different species, having really different accents and customs, easily spotted though.
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I think the Geordies are the ones that remove their t shirts at football matches🤣 Hilarious sight one Winter at Sheff Utd v Newcastle Utd. Made even funnier by a chorus of “who ate all the pies?”🤣🤣 We love them all up there……
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Now you're speaking a foreign language, my ansum. We have Janners, Tinners, Piskies, Emmets and Grockles down this way, amongst others😂
Btw, we have Penzance Magpies too.
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Back when I was a lad we lived in Cambs. anything past Peterborough was up north
. I've never been past Derby so there's a world of up north to discover when we hang our boots up with the club.JK
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Dont know about up north and down south but it’s nice for places to keep their individual identity. I was born in Hanwell but then grew up in Hayes Middlesex, it was quite countrified then. Now all swallowed up by just being called Greater London. A real shame. I never ever thought that I lived in London.
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Nice in north Devon though DEBSC
, we love itJK
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I sort of envy you JK. All sorts of stunning places in the UK just waiting to be discovered. The South East is an area I don’t know well, although OH spent a lot of his childhood down there with family members. There are still a few Counties I have never visited. Mostly in SE.
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I was brought up in what was called the east Midlands, Worksop.
It sits on the boundary of Yorkshire, Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire.
Down south was considered to be anywhere south of Birmingham, Cambridge. North was Newcastle and above.
Scotland, was well Scotland. Its amazing how folk from down south don't realise how much of Scotland there is north of Edinburgh.
JK, you have a lot of travelling to do when you finish 😉
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I have to admit JK it took a few years. I used to work for a vibrant American Co in Northampton and got a real culture shock when we moved here, I found work life here very backward looking when we first moved here nearly 40 years ago, especially as a woman. However either it caught up, or I slowed down. Love it here now though, it’s really home.
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Seems, as mentioned, that where North is depends on your location!
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According to a snp leadership candidate dumfries and galloway is in northern england because we get border television and are conditioned to rule by westminster!
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