Where does " The North" start

[TWOCHOICEStom]

Watford Gap. No question about it.

 

[HovaGirl]

Anything north of Watford Gap services

Yep, that's the old traditional thinking!

 

[KZNSeagull]

Used to be Crawley, but now it would have to be Ladysmith.

 

[Gazwag]

Once the new seats are in I think its where the "bend" starts

 

[Shy Talk]

Just this side of the equator.

This is technically correct,

 

[Gordon Bennett]

the Q8/BP garage at the bottom of mill road

Correct!

 

[perseus]

Hatfield

 

[Hamilton]

Patcham

 

[Meade's Ball]

Next door to my house. I am on a north-heading road, so the next house up, which has some late-night drinking snoopy students in it, is the north to me, and therefore one of my natural enemies, along with The Proclaimers who have had it in for me since i accidentally turned up at one of their "gigs", which was actually a wedding they were playing at probably for about £80, the cheapos, and having a better Scottish accent than them, and a better flat top - one you could lay a carpet of ants across, each six-legger pierced by my rigidily sharp bristles..

 

[Hampden Park]

It's sad that we no longer play Plymouth Argyle, Exeter City or Torquay United. I miss the away fans responding to an Adam El-Abd tackle with a chant of "Dirty Northern Bastard".

remember the Janner's (PAFC) calling us cockneys a few times.

 

[The screamer]

the top of the London road

 

[swd40]

North of the South Downs.

 

[Big_Unit]

The geographical mid-point of England (from north to south) is somewhere around Stoke / Nottingham. If we were to be spoddish about it, everything above this would be 'The North'...

 

[brightn'ove]

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

 

[Jambo Seagull]

Anywhere north of Dundee for me.

 

[Glawstergull]

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

"The North" is surely anything above the middle("The Midlands")So perhaps north of Derby/Nottingham.

 

[Shropshire Seagull]

When I lived in Brighton, it was the Pylons on the A23 just past Braypool.
Now I live in Shropshire, no way is this North.
Past Stoke inthe M6 or past Derbyshire on the M1

 

[mikeyjh]

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

I'd agree with that - Everyone south of there and as far west as Portsmouth sounds exactly the same, west of Portsmouth, they start having accents again....

 

[brakespear]

Anywhere not on the South Coast

 

[mona]

North of England = traditional counties of Yorkshire, Lancs, Durham, Northumberland, Westmoreland and Cumberland.

The South West begins at Salisbury.

Sussex is one county.