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Where does the North of England officially start
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"Stafford. Got to be. It seems to be roughly where the midlands (where people talk a little bit funny) becomes the place where people start talking way more funny. Once you hit Manchester, oooff."
A good two hours drive north to the border though! 
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By *ohn KanakaMan
over a year ago
Not all that North of North London |
When om heading north on the M1, I think not in the North once I get to the A50 junction. That's roughly the point they start calling bread rolls all manner of weird things and calling you duck when you speak to them |
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By *ty31Man
over a year ago
NW London |
Anywhere north of Nottingham is The North.
Between Stevenage and Nottingham is officially the Midlands.
Wales and Scotland are different planets entirely.
London is the centre of the universe. |
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"Shap! Bloomin auto correct!
Where’s Shap? To a lot of people it’s anywhere north of Birmingham.  "
Jcn39 off the M6.
Shap was formed when the two hamlets of Shit and Crap grew in to one another....  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Shap! Bloomin auto correct!
Where’s Shap? To a lot of people it’s anywhere north of Birmingham.
Jcn39 off the M6.
Shap was formed when the two hamlets of Shit and Crap grew in to one another.... "
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"Let’s ask the KLF.
https://citymonitor.ai/community/literally-just-map-every-town-lyrics-it-s-grim-north-klf-3838
So it starts at Nantwich and Rochdale has a solid claim to being the capital."
It’s grim up north! Love a bit of KLF |
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"Let’s ask the KLF.
https://citymonitor.ai/community/literally-just-map-every-town-lyrics-it-s-grim-north-klf-3838
So it starts at Nantwich and Rochdale has a solid claim to being the capital.
It’s grim up north! Love a bit of KLF"
We ain't grim at all! We are fun. |
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"Wherever chippy's start having a jar of pickled eggs on the counter and you can ask for scraps without being frowned upon. That is where the North be... "
OMG! Thuis reminds me of the time I went in to the chippy on Colchester High Street, and asked for a chip butty with gravy! They sent me on my way with, get this; a cone of chips......?  |
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"Wherever chippy's start having a jar of pickled eggs on the counter and you can ask for scraps without being frowned upon. That is where the North be...
OMG! Thuis reminds me of the time I went in to the chippy on Colchester High Street, and asked for a chip butty with gravy! They sent me on my way with, get this; a cone of chips......? "
LOL! An outrage! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I’m Dosertonian born and bred. For me anything the other side of the M4 is north and anything inside the m25 is London. It’s worked well for me so far lol |
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"Carlisle, but I'm working down rather than up.
This is true. Between the borders and Carlisle is some sort of weird limbo area."
It's furthest North before Scotland actually! We are proper northern. |
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By *an1978Woman
over a year ago
GONE/TIMEOUT (No DMs please) |
would roughly use the M62 for my line but dip round sheffield
Strangely wouldn't think of a Scouser as a Northerner.
I think of it more like Lancs, Cumbria, Yorkshire, Etc
(I'm in mid Wales) |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Well if you try to figure it out using Fab geography it apears to be just above Sheffield. Probably Barnsley. Mind according to Fab, East Midlands goes from Chelmsford to South Yorkshire... Go figure. |
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By *arkus1812Man
over a year ago
Lifes departure lounge NN9 Northamptonshire East not West MidlandsMidlands |
Watford Gap Services on the basis of the first section of the M1 finishing a couple of miles past them.
The Motorway workforce were told that is as far North as we are going. |
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By *xhib12Man
over a year ago
Blyth |
"Cumbria, couty durham, tyne and wear and northumberland are the north. Everything else is the south This is true! We are proper north up here. "
I agree, this is proper north. All other places are just wannabe north. |
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"Is it where they start deep frying Mars Bars?
No, if you gind this then you've gone too far and need to turn around."
Agreed..
Surely anyone carrying out such strange practices is from the back of beyond.. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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According to Mark & Lard when they used to be on Radio 1 it was the Bureau de Change at Watford Gap services.
They used to exchange their tenners into That London Village fivers.
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I grew up in the Midlands and always thought that Sheffield was in the north.
Then I moved to Teesside and think a line across the country following Wainwright’s Coast to Coast walk is a pretty good marker. |
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When I worked as a Civil Servant they - 'officially' - took a red marker pen and drew a horizontal line across the UK from east to west bisecting the very southern tip of Sheffield.
Anything above that red line is "oop norf" |
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"When om heading north on the M1, I think not in the North once I get to the A50 junction. That's roughly the point they start calling bread rolls all manner of weird things and calling you duck when you speak to them"
Us Northerners dont call folks Duck!!! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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You're all looking at this from the wrong direction.
When you cross the border from Scotland the north of England starts.
Where it ends is the real question. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I thought it started at the Watford Gap!?
That's right"
Not right. Watford is the centre of the donut shaped universe. There is no north from Watford. The gap is in fact the hole in the universe donut. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Surely the time honoured way to sort out where you are from geographically depends on what you call a bread roll. Lol. "
A bread roll??
Do you mean a bread bun? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"There’s a sign in the M1 specifically to warn Southerners they are entering The North "
They need that itherwise they will be all shocked when people they dont know are nice to them and talk to them. |
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