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Dolgellau is the gateway to Gogland.
I believe mushy peas with chips is also an indicator of being in The North
No doubt and the better the fish and chips. (and the best fish and chips in the country resides in an 80 year old barn in a village in Lincolnshire.)
North is a direction not a location.
As long as you're heading that way you're doing okay.
No idea where The North is but it’s fun to refer to folk from Yorkshire and Lancashire as Southerners.
Do you own google home or Alexa and it actually understands what you’re trying to say? You’re from the south.
The chips on shoulder comment has surfaced quite a lot on this thread mainly by people not from the north. Why is that?
Oh, I think you know
Was in Mansfield the other week and that's definitely in the North. Gritty locals, flat caps, whippets, bar eck aslike etc
By the same token a recent visit to Hereford was positively equatorial. Leaves on the trees, lots of apples, friendly relaxed natives.
Talking to some of the guys in our Wandsworth warehouse - anywhere north of the Thames they're expecting kilts and bagpipes, north of the North Circular is all eskimos and polar bears. (and I'm not joking - there was one guy who started working for us. Mid 30's and he'd never been north of the river!)
As someone brought up in Leicester, that was midlands. North of Nottighamshire would count as north.
Now as a happy resident of The People's Republic Of South Yorkshire And The Peak District, I'd say we might still be midlands geographically, but northern in spirit.
I'm from Manchester and i have never been so insulted as when my partner (from Cumbria, living in York) refused to acknowledge me as northern.
I work in London where everyone thinks im a flat cap wearing pigeon fancier.
I live near Chester now so "believe" im on the southern end of the north or the northern end of the midlands.
I live near Chester now so “believe” im on the southern end of the north or the northern end of the midlands.
No, you're in Cheshire dahling.
If you buy a really expensive smart watch,it can show you were North is.
Talking to some of the guys in our Wandsworth warehouse – anywhere north of the Thames they’re expecting kilts and bagpipes, north of the North Circular is all eskimos and polar bears.
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Stepps or Bishopbriggs is the start of the North.
Once I'm passed Ecclefechan I'm well on the way to the South
there was one guy who started working for us. Mid 30’s and he’d never been north of the river!
Envious in some ways - just think of how adventurous he'd feel just by getting into a car and heading up the M1!
My wife's family think of themselves as living in the frozen North of the USA (Wisconsin). Of course there is a whole country more northern and frozen than them - and it's fun to remind them that they are a lot further south than we are.
Northern England = Macc and above
Northern Britain = Scotland
PhilH was right on page 1 - if your hometown is in the KLF song you're in the club
Is Crewe in the North?
In Scotland it's somewhere south of Inverness because Inverness and beyond is referred to as Far North in the local papers
Is Crewe in the North?
Just.
Chesterfield and above I'd say.
Trough pf bowland is geo central there is a phone box to commemorate it.
North anything above a horizontal line that starts at about Chester/Wales
Barnet
Everything past Taunton is up country. Birmingham is practically the Arctic.
BigButSlimmerBloke
In Scotland it’s somewhere south of Inverness because Inverness and beyond is referred to as Far North in the local papers
Yes, the South starts at Aviemore. Always surprised there's not palm trees when I venture that far down. 🙂
Quite clearly the North is the East bound carriageway of the M62 and above. As far as I know there’s just a few wildlings living on berries and stuff above Carlisle.
You’ve got the midlands from Stoke down to Coventry but nobody goes there for obviously reasons.
Anything under that is Darn Sarf which you only pass through to head to the Alps.
What's that bit South of the M62 and North of Stoke called?
Nobody knows, but it’s got Warrington in it so nobody cares.
What’s that bit South of the M62 and North of Stoke called?
Burnt out carland ?
Fly tippers land ?
Pea Fritters = the South or Wales
Any variation of pie-barms, or any other doubled-up carb combo = not the South.
Oatcakes, as in soft oaty pancakes with melted cheese = the buffer zone.
Isle of Wight here. If you don’t eat ‘nammet’ at lunchtime and live on the North Isle (that’s the mainland to most of you), you’re all Northerners. I’m originally from West Yorks so am keeping up the good work enriching the gene pool here! 😂
Aren’t most residents over 70yrs old??
You may have some issues on the “enrichment” front..
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enriching the gene pool here!
It's not a pool it's a puddle
Don't know if this has been posted up already, there's wonderful piece of greggs-based analysis looking at this
So once we have determined where the North is we need some analysis one variation within the North.
I give you Ian McMillan on the 'ouse 'arse interface.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01ljwm4
In Scotland it’s somewhere south of Inverness because Inverness and beyond is referred to as Far North in the local papers
They can call it whatever they like: there's no-one there to take offence.
Anything north of Winchester according to the gf. Being from Berkshire makes me a northerner apparently not the fact I was born in Lancashire.
there’s no-one there to take offence
Father in law lives near Thurso. I think that counts as "The North". NE England feels a long way south, but that might be just the lack of motorways… or even dual carriageway north of Newcastle.
They can call it whatever they like: there’s no-one there to take offence.
The chippy in Lairg always seems full
Above the Great Glen is my marker...
But I guess since I am living south of the wall at the moment... draw a line between Lancaster and Scarborough - south of that is the Midlands. Everything seems to become more "English" south of that imaginary line, and more "Northern" above it until you hit "The Wall" of course....
North of lines drawn from:
The Humber to the Mersey = the North
The Wash to the Severn = the Midlands
Anything south is.......... the South.
Devon and Cornwall are granted sovereignty as the South West and bits of Herefordshire, Shropshire and Gloucs are 'Welsh England'
If you wear a flat cap ironically, you live in the south.
If you don't wear a flat cap ironically, but get annoyed at North/South threads then you probably live in Scotland, which doesn't count.
I'm really surprised that Newcastle ( toon ..not the southern based under Lyme) gets no mention in the Greggs based analysis ..it is after all where it all started ..
If you don't know what Stotties & Pease Pudding is then you can't be proper northern ..
Not sure if it's been mentioned but Stuart Marconie has a book, Pies and Predjudice, on the very subject. Not his best scribblings but an interesting read.
Hey epicyclo don't forget the palm trees in Plockton or should I say Am Ploc
I skipped a few pages, but I think what we all understand is, nobody really wants the Midlands.
Northerners; "no we don't want that place, definitely not part of the North, therefore it's South"
Southerners; "ew, that place has too many Greggs and not enough Waitrose, definitely North. far too grim for us"
Midlanders; "why won't anybody love me?"