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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

Not Watford Gap, obviously. A line across from The Wash?

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Not Watford Gap, obviously. A line across from The Wash? "

Darlington!

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

I don't know where it begins but I strongly suspect it hardly even figures in the minds of the political establishment or those who conduct the business of allocating national infrastructure investment.....

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By *abioMan over a year ago

Newcastle and Gateshead

"Not Watford Gap, obviously. A line across from The Wash?

Darlington!"

tsk tsk tsk...... durham!!!!

seriously though.. i consider the north to start from the humber and south yorkshire northwards.....i call it "checkpoint Fred" if i am travelling north or "checkpoint Tarquin" if i am travelling south

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

As soon as you leave Hertfordshire be it by any of the main road or rail routes it gets progressively more grim and primitive

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Where the south ends

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By *eliWoman over a year ago

"As soon as you leave Hertfordshire be it by any of the main road or rail routes it gets progressively more grim and primitive "

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Slough.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"As soon as you leave Hertfordshire be it by any of the main road or rail routes it gets progressively more grim and primitive "

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Leeds ish. Sheffield is probably the absolute southernmost point of what could ever be considered even slightly north.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"I don't know where it begins but I strongly suspect it hardly even figures in the minds of the political establishment or those who conduct the business of allocating national infrastructure investment.....

Unless it's the North West...they've heard of Manchester

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By *unandbuckCouple over a year ago

Sheffield

The equator?

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Leeds ish. Sheffield is probably the absolute southernmost point of what could ever be considered even slightly north. "

Sheffield is at the centre of the Earth.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"The equator?"

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By *unandbuckCouple over a year ago

Sheffield

North of England or the UK?

I looked up 'centre of england' from another thread today and it is supposed to be Meriden in Leicerstershire or somewhere near Solihull. So 'North' would be anywhere north of there. But living either side of the line wouldn't make you a northerner or a southerner

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By *atelotmanMan over a year ago

Chatham

That's like asking where does London end.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Not Watford Gap, obviously. A line across from The Wash?

Darlington!"

I'd say Scotch Corner. As a kid when we went on holiday as soon as we hit Scotch corner my Dad would say we'd left The North

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By *unandbuckCouple over a year ago

Sheffield

"Leeds ish. Sheffield is probably the absolute southernmost point of what could ever be considered even slightly north.

Sheffield is at the centre of the Earth.

This is confirmed by numerous reliable sources.

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By *exysuzi and Mr.SCouple over a year ago

CONISTON .Stoke Suburbia. Staffs. BARMOUTH. The Lakes (Monthly)

"The equator?

I was going to say that.

Anywhere up from the south pole is obs north.

xxxxx Suzi

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By *oxesMan over a year ago

Southend, Essex

"Not Watford Gap, obviously. A line across from The Wash? "

according to people from the south east/southwest and london geographically anywhere north of Birmingham.

I wales the North is anywhere north of Powys. (because they have their own north South divide)

In the north the North starts with their city and anything south of that is the south.

In the actual South that don't care or even know there is a north south divide.

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By *eliz NelsonMan over a year ago

The Tantric Tea Shop

I have always thought of it as north of the Humber but that's just a reference to the old 'Northumbria.'

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By *unandbuckCouple over a year ago

Sheffield

"Leeds ish. Sheffield is probably the absolute southernmost point of what could ever be considered even slightly north. "

Maybe. If a Cockerny travelled to Sheffield, he would definitaly consider him/herself to be 'in the North'

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Exeter for those of us down here

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By *yrdwomanWoman over a year ago

Putting the 'cum' in Eboracum

"Leeds ish. Sheffield is probably the absolute southernmost point of what could ever be considered even slightly north. "

It's in South Yorkshire so classed as south for me.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Leeds ish. Sheffield is probably the absolute southernmost point of what could ever be considered even slightly north.

It's in South Yorkshire so classed as south for me.

Yeah I know what you mean, I lived there for a while though and it felt almost northern.

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By *unandbuckCouple over a year ago

Sheffield

"Leeds ish. Sheffield is probably the absolute southernmost point of what could ever be considered even slightly north.

It's in South Yorkshire so classed as south for me.

How very dare you

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

North is anywhere north of naughty towers for me

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By *abioMan over a year ago

Newcastle and Gateshead

"As soon as you leave Hertfordshire be it by any of the main road or rail routes it gets progressively more grim and primitive "

I know.... we are so far north the A1 is just a cobbled road.... i bloody got overtaken by a horse and carriage!!!!

just as well i got electricity in the last few months... now i can get this "dial up" thingey all me friends talk about....

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By *yrdwomanWoman over a year ago

Putting the 'cum' in Eboracum

"Leeds ish. Sheffield is probably the absolute southernmost point of what could ever be considered even slightly north.

It's in South Yorkshire so classed as south for me.

How very dare you

Southerner

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Winterfell

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By *ecretlyASoftieWoman over a year ago

Hull but travel regularly

I'm simplistic about it - Heathrow is south, Hull is north, everywhere in between is the middle bit

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Anywhere north of Telford!

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By *evaquitCouple over a year ago

Catthorpe

The North starts at the very point the local dialect stop using the word 'the' in any sentence.

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By *unandbuckCouple over a year ago

Sheffield

"Leeds ish. Sheffield is probably the absolute southernmost point of what could ever be considered even slightly north.

It's in South Yorkshire so classed as south for me.

How very dare you

Southerner

I'll reply as soon as I've gone down the apple and pears for my pie and mash with jellied eels

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Anywhere North of Gloucester is generally regarded North round my way, but a serious response from me would be Birmingham

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By *oxesMan over a year ago

Southend, Essex

"I have always thought of it as north of the Humber but that's just a reference to the old 'Northumbria.'"

Northumbria was originally the angal kingdom streached from coast to coast and as far north to its most nortgern extent in what is now Scotland and it's most southerly point is geus work.

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By *oxesMan over a year ago

Southend, Essex

"Winterfell"

no the true north starts beyond the wall lol.

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By *yrdwomanWoman over a year ago

Putting the 'cum' in Eboracum

"I have always thought of it as north of the Humber but that's just a reference to the old 'Northumbria.'

Northumbria was originally the angal kingdom streached from coast to coast and as far north to its most nortgern extent in what is now Scotland and it's most southerly point is geus work."

I don't think Northumbria covered Scotland as the wall was still there, and Scotland had their own tribes. Hadrians wall is South of the Scottish border.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Anywhere they start having strange names for bread rolls.

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By *eliz NelsonMan over a year ago

The Tantric Tea Shop

"I have always thought of it as north of the Humber but that's just a reference to the old 'Northumbria.'

Northumbria was originally the angal kingdom streached from coast to coast and as far north to its most nortgern extent in what is now Scotland and it's most southerly point is geus work."

Yes! I know

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By *oward1978Man over a year ago

Rotherham

"Leeds ish. Sheffield is probably the absolute southernmost point of what could ever be considered even slightly north.

Sheffield is at the centre of the Earth.

Yes, and London is the centre of the universe

In all seriousness though, I'd class anything from South Yorkshire and above as northern. All I know is that I'm definitely northern.

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By *ilary and DonaldCouple over a year ago

chingford

The M25 is the dividing line.

Anything north off there is a northerner.

That's the law, I didn't make it up.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Anywhere they start having strange names for bread rolls. "

We call them buns up north and if there's bacon or chips in between its a butty

I'm from in between Darlington and Durham which is pretty north but I'd say Leeds or york is where the north ends

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By *ilary and DonaldCouple over a year ago

chingford

People from Luton , Milton Keynes, Northampton are all northerners to us.

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By *eeBee67Man over a year ago

Masked and Distant

Are we forgetting the Midlands?

South is from wet bit at the bottom up to Northampton.

Midlands Northampton to Derby

North Derby up to The Border

But thats just my opinion.

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By *ady LickWoman over a year ago

Northampton Somewhere

From j17 of the M1 (Rugby) is north to me!

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Winterfell

no the true north starts beyond the wall lol."

Well yeah, but omly wildlings live there

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By *unandbuckCouple over a year ago

Sheffield

It's funny, geordies say Leeds and Sheffield are borderline, then Landaners think Milton Keynes is northern!

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Im reading this thread and have no idea where half these places are... thats proper foreign territory..

Im still 100% sure that Exeter is where 'North' starts :D

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By *unandbuckCouple over a year ago

Sheffield

"Im reading this thread and have no idea where half these places are... thats proper foreign territory..

Im still 100% sure that Exeter is where 'North' starts :D "

They all be places where city folk be.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Im reading this thread and have no idea where half these places are... thats proper foreign territory..

Im still 100% sure that Exeter is where 'North' starts :D

They all be places where city folk be."

Then they become bleddy grockles in the summer months and invade our land bringing caravans and using our already slow dial up connections and phone _oxes... pffttt

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Roughly in the middle of the middle.

xxx

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"I have always thought of it as north of the Humber but that's just a reference to the old 'Northumbria.'"

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By *erbyDalesCplCouple over a year ago

Derbyshire

Ooh, a chance to revisit that famous quote from Mrs ddc "I'm surprised how far north Watford Gap actually is"

I can confirm that people in Derbyshire get squiffy if you call them Northerners (even though I've definitely seen whippets, and owning racing pigeons is compulsory)

{runs to hide}

Mr ddc

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

It's clearly where all the greenery vanishes. The smoke stacks and slag heaps start. And all the houses are back to back. Everyone wears clogs and has a terrier or whippet.

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By *ikeC81Man over a year ago

harrow

"Leeds ish. Sheffield is probably the absolute southernmost point of what could ever be considered even slightly north.

Maybe. If a Cockerny travelled to Sheffield, he would definitaly consider him/herself to be 'in the North'"

I would say Sheffield is north and Notts is midlands

I would say the north staffs is north

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By *unandbuckCouple over a year ago

Sheffield

"Ooh, a chance to revisit that famous quote from Mrs ddc "I'm surprised how far north Watford Gap actually is"

I can confirm that people in Derbyshire get squiffy if you call them Northerners (even though I've definitely seen whippets, and owning racing pigeons is compulsory)

{runs to hide}

Mr ddc"

Well, Derbyshire folk are still nice, so can't be considered actually southern.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

I think it's relative...

on wether you've married a relative

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"The equator?"

Ah, I see what you did there.

Very good, and, of course, technically, spot on!

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By *mokes n MirrorsCouple over a year ago

Plymouth and Newcastle (sometimes)

Living in Plymouth there's not much south of us and the locals think anything past Exeter is 'The North'. But being from the Midlands originally, I would say the north begins around Manchester and the south is around Bristol.

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By *erbyDalesCplCouple over a year ago

Derbyshire

Mr ddc

Well, Derbyshire folk are still nice, so can't be considered actually southern."

There are still little villages where they all come out of their houses as you drive past, to marvel at the horseless carriage

(They also get even more squiffy if you call them Southerners)

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By *unandbuckCouple over a year ago

Sheffield

"The equator?

Ah, I see what you did there.

Very good, and, of course, technically, spot on!"

I did it so people who don't live up here could good feel good too.

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By *unandbuckCouple over a year ago

Sheffield

Mr ddc

Well, Derbyshire folk are still nice, so can't be considered actually southern.

There are still little villages where they all come out of their houses as you drive past, to marvel at the horseless carriage

(They also get even more squiffy if you call them Southerners)"

Which is ok until they start to chase you if its wizardry startles them.

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By *unandbuckCouple over a year ago

Sheffield

"I think it's relative...

on wether you've married a relative

Don't tell that to your wife and sister.

She'll be offended

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Living in Plymouth there's not much south of us and the locals think anything past Exeter is 'The North'. But being from the Midlands originally, I would say the north begins around Manchester and the south is around Bristol."

Exeter IS 'THE NORTH'..

Soon as i hit the M5 and pass under the bridge and wave goodbye to that lil orange elephant slide thing i start to get a lil bit of anxiety..

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"The equator?

Ah, I see what you did there.

Very good, and, of course, technically, spot on!"
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Until you get pole flip.... Then you'll be a southerner

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By *ilary and DonaldCouple over a year ago

chingford

Derby is proper northern.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"I think it's relative...

on wether you've married a relative

Don't tell that to your wife and sister.

She'll be offended

"
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I only visited Norfolk once... Once was enough

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By *unandbuckCouple over a year ago

Sheffield

"The equator?

Ah, I see what you did there.

Very good, and, of course, technically, spot on!.

Until you get pole flip.... Then you'll be a southerner

There's just Santa chuntering about bloody southerners

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"The equator?

Ah, I see what you did there.

Very good, and, of course, technically, spot on!.

Until you get pole flip.... Then you'll be a southerner

There's just Santa chuntering about bloody southerners

"
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That's ok, he can go and live at the new North pole with the Nazis.... And the UFOs.... And the atlatians

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By *unandbuckCouple over a year ago

Sheffield

There's just Santa chuntering about bloody southerners

That's ok, he can go and live at the new North pole with the Nazis.... And the UFOs.... And the atlatians

He already does live at the North Pole.

He is the worlds true Northerner, cannot be disputed by any arbitary points or lines.

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By *ilary and DonaldCouple over a year ago

chingford

There's just Santa chuntering about bloody southerners

That's ok, he can go and live at the new North pole with the Nazis.... And the UFOs.... And the atlatians

He already does live at the North Pole.

He is the worlds true Northerner, cannot be disputed by any arbitary points or lines."

I thought he lived in Finland

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Anywhere north of luton for me

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By *unandbuckCouple over a year ago

Sheffield

There's just Santa chuntering about bloody southerners

That's ok, he can go and live at the new North pole with the Nazis.... And the UFOs.... And the atlatians

He already does live at the North Pole.

He is the worlds true Northerner, cannot be disputed by any arbitary points or lines.

I thought he lived in Finland "

Doh, that's his brother for the tourists.

He's too busy at the North Pole for that shizzle.

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By *ilary and DonaldCouple over a year ago

chingford

There's just Santa chuntering about bloody southerners

That's ok, he can go and live at the new North pole with the Nazis.... And the UFOs.... And the atlatians

He already does live at the North Pole.

He is the worlds true Northerner, cannot be disputed by any arbitary points or lines.

I thought he lived in Finland

Doh, that's his brother for the tourists.

He's too busy at the North Pole for that shizzle."

Another fantasy ruined.

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By *r Man.Man over a year ago

London

The north starts from outside the M25

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By *acavityMan over a year ago

Redditch

The north south divide runs through Worcestershire, with Worcester, Pershore and Evesham being the agrarian south, and bromsgrove, Kidderminster and Redditch being industrial north.

Of course it's not really a line, but a gradual change as you traverse mercia.

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By *unandbuckCouple over a year ago

Sheffield

I thought he lived in Finland

Doh, that's his brother for the tourists.

He's too busy at the North Pole for that shizzle.

Another fantasy ruined. "

A santa fantasy?...

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Milton Keynes is part of south East

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Not Watford Gap, obviously. A line across from The Wash? "

At the top of the south bit

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Anywhere they start having strange names for bread rolls. "

Don't you dare try and start a muffin/barm argument

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By *unandbuckCouple over a year ago

Sheffield

"The north starts from outside the M25

The M25 is actually a secret MI6 plot and is the foundations for a 'London Wall' to keep out the northrners and bumpkins in times of crisis.

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By *ilary and DonaldCouple over a year ago

chingford

"The north starts from outside the M25

The M25 is actually a secret MI6 plot and is the foundations for a 'London Wall' to keep out the northrners and bumpkins in times of crisis."

It ain't working.

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By *ilary and DonaldCouple over a year ago

chingford

"Milton Keynes is part of south East "

It's north of London therefore northern.

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By *ilary and DonaldCouple over a year ago

chingford

I thought he lived in Finland

Doh, that's his brother for the tourists.

He's too busy at the North Pole for that shizzle.

Another fantasy ruined.

A santa fantasy?...

More an elve fantasy but I'll leave that for another time.

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By *erbyDalesCplCouple over a year ago

Derbyshire

My (southern) family jokes that we live near the arctic circle which feels north to me.

Mrs DDC

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By *ilary and DonaldCouple over a year ago

chingford

I thought he lived in Finland

Doh, that's his brother for the tourists.

He's too busy at the North Pole for that shizzle.

Another fantasy ruined.

A santa fantasy?...

More an elve fantasy but I'll leave that for another time. "

Or possible elf or elves.

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By *unandbuckCouple over a year ago

Sheffield

"The north starts from outside the M25

The M25 is actually a secret MI6 plot and is the foundations for a 'London Wall' to keep out the northrners and bumpkins in times of crisis.

It ain't working. "

And I was going to offer to come down with my santa outfit....

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By *ilary and DonaldCouple over a year ago

chingford

"The north starts from outside the M25

The M25 is actually a secret MI6 plot and is the foundations for a 'London Wall' to keep out the northrners and bumpkins in times of crisis.

It ain't working.

And I was going to offer to come down with my santa outfit...."

Oh,

Just had a look and I'll apply for a visitors permit if you wish.

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By *unandbuckCouple over a year ago

Sheffield

"The north starts from outside the M25

The M25 is actually a secret MI6 plot and is the foundations for a 'London Wall' to keep out the northrners and bumpkins in times of crisis.

It ain't working.

And I was going to offer to come down with my santa outfit....

Oh,

Just had a look and I'll apply for a visitors permit if you wish. "

We'll just fly over the wall on our pigeon-copter

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Bristol. No, Exeter!!

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By *.nottsbloke..Man over a year ago

the vale

Who is the king of the north?

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By *risky_MareWoman over a year ago

...Up on the Downs

The river!!

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Any where that pigeon cots, whippets and cloth caps are p

igate?!

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By *ondon-guy68Man over a year ago

London

Above the belly button.

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By *ty31Man over a year ago

NW London

London geography 101;

There's London.

There's The M25

Then there's the rest of the world.

That is all.

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By *ax777Man over a year ago

Not here

"I have always thought of it as north of the Humber but that's just a reference to the old 'Northumbria.'

Northumbria was originally the angal kingdom streached from coast to coast and as far north to its most nortgern extent in what is now Scotland and it's most southerly point is geus work.

I don't think Northumbria covered Scotland as the wall was still there, and Scotland had their own tribes. Hadrians wall is South of the Scottish border."

The ancient kingdom of Northumbria extended as far north as the River Forth, to include what is now Edinburgh. Hadrian's Wall runs just north of the River Tyne.

Don't the road signs suggest that the north begins around Hatfield? ??

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

if people are confused about where the North starts, Try living in North Lincolnshire, We are told we are in the Humber area, Humberside does not exist, WE are told that we live in the East Middlands yet we are on the East Coast, Our Post code is in another county 80 miles away, Yorkshire, yet our Capital of our County Lincolnshire is 32 miles away.

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By *ust RachelTV/TS over a year ago

Horsham

The south Pole I think.

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By *mokes n MirrorsCouple over a year ago

Plymouth and Newcastle (sometimes)

Exeter IS 'THE NORTH'..

Soon as i hit the M5 and pass under the bridge and wave goodbye to that lil orange elephant slide thing i start to get a lil bit of anxiety..

Haha...That thing has been there for sooo long. When we're coming home from 'Up North' (P is from there) the downhill past the racecourse means we're on the home stretch and even if the car conks out someone would come and get us.

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By *U1966Man over a year ago

Devon

Exeter

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

from the A66 scotch corner

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By *r Costa xxMan over a year ago

stirling

The romans got it right when they built Hadrians wall, Carlisle is the start of the north.

Now why would they be trying to keep the scots out, we're lovely folk

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By *mmabluTV/TS over a year ago

upton wirral

"As soon as you leave Hertfordshire be it by any of the main road or rail routes it gets progressively more grim and primitive "
You do not know what your missing take your blinkers off

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By *ce WingerMan over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

Anywhere north of DE 1 obviously

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Exeter IS 'THE NORTH'..

Soon as i hit the M5 and pass under the bridge and wave goodbye to that lil orange elephant slide thing i start to get a lil bit of anxiety..

i just had a sigh of relief,, glad im not the only one who feels like that haha

living where i do is a ballache though as ive gotta take the right 'fork' and then carry on the a38 and turn off for Buckfastleigh.. then its a dwindle back to Dartmouth.. least you guys would be home in 30 mins tops id imagine

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"As soon as you leave Hertfordshire be it by any of the main road or rail routes it gets progressively more grim and primitive "

Grim? You've never obviously been to the area I live in...it's an AONB. I'm privelaged to live here.

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By *ce WingerMan over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

"Living where i do is a ballache though as ive gotta take the right 'fork' and then carry on the a38 and turn off for Derby"

Sounds like a plan, when ya cumming then

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

I'm pretty sure it starts just north of the South Downs Way

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By *aisyDDWoman over a year ago

North West

"Anywhere they start having strange names for bread rolls.

We call them buns up north and if there's bacon or chips in between its a butty

I'm from in between Darlington and Durham which is pretty north but I'd say Leeds or york is where the north ends "

Totally with the buns/butty. We also have gravy up north. It's safe to say I'm northern. Flap cap, whippet amd no 'the' in my vocabulary ??

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman over a year ago

The Town by The Cross

Forest of Bowland in Lancs.

And above.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Anywhere they start having strange names for bread rolls.

We call them buns up north and if there's bacon or chips in between its a butty

I'm from in between Darlington and Durham which is pretty north but I'd say Leeds or york is where the north ends "

I'm with you on this.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Anywhere they start having strange names for bread rolls.

We call them buns up north and if there's bacon or chips in between its a butty

I'm from in between Darlington and Durham which is pretty north but I'd say Leeds or york is where the north ends

I'm with you on this.

Even then I think of Leeds as a southern place

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By *ce WingerMan over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

Anyone who lives in Antarctica has the right to answer this you would have thought

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By *enard ArgenteMan over a year ago

London and France

The Loire Valley

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By *ymph and ManicCouple over a year ago

North East

"As soon as you leave Hertfordshire be it by any of the main road or rail routes it gets progressively more grim and primitive "
.. and the people get more chatty and friendlier and not anally challenged by there cranium ... ... ...

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"As soon as you leave Hertfordshire be it by any of the main road or rail routes it gets progressively more grim and primitive .. and the people get more chatty and friendlier and not anally challenged by there cranium ... ... ...

I say!

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Yorkshire & Lancashire are in the north.

Cheshire is in denial.

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"Yorkshire & Lancashire are in the north.

Cheshire is in denial."

And the Wirral? I traced my dad's family back to there. Possibly a lot of inbred Vikings...

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Yorkshire & Lancashire are in the north.

Cheshire is in denial.

And the Wirral? I traced my dad's family back to there. Possibly a lot of inbred Vikings...

That's in Liverpool

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

not sure how many Vikings made it over that way though

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By *alandNitaCouple over a year ago

Scunthorpe

"if people are confused about where the North starts, Try living in North Lincolnshire, We are told we are in the Humber area, Humberside does not exist, WE are told that we live in the East Middlands yet we are on the East Coast, Our Post code is in another county 80 miles away, Yorkshire, yet our Capital of our County Lincolnshire is 32 miles away."

I know... it bugs the hell out of me that so many online places want me to put Humberside in my address. It's not existed for 20 years!

Anyway, I consider myself to be Northern. So I suppose the North is South Yorkshire and up.

Nita

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By *andaCouple over a year ago

co down

Between Dundalk and Newry

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By *ofakindCouple over a year ago

Running with Monkeys

"The north starts from outside the M25

The M25 is actually a secret MI6 plot and is the foundations for a 'London Wall' to keep out the northrners and bumpkins in times of crisis."

I'm sure I drove around this 3 or 4 times trying to find a way into Slough!!

Southerners always fucking shit up for those of who live above lizard point

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"As soon as you leave Hertfordshire be it by any of the main road or rail routes it gets progressively more grim and primitive "

Hahaha!

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By *iredhandMan over a year ago

Manchester

If, on a night out in the middle of winter, everyone else is wearing, at the most, a short sleeved top, you're in the north. If the men are drinking shandy, you're in the south.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"If, on a night out in the middle of winter, everyone else is wearing, at the most, a short sleeved top, you're in the north. If the men are drinking shandy, you're in the south.

nah that's the midlands.

Southerners drink cocktails.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Leeds ish. Sheffield is probably the absolute southernmost point of what could ever be considered even slightly north.

Sheffield is at the centre of the Earth.

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"not sure how many Vikings made it over that way though"

The Wirral was a Viking enclave from about 900AD, following the expulsion of a band of Norse warriors from Ireland.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"not sure how many Vikings made it over that way though

The Wirral was a Viking enclave from about 900AD, following the expulsion of a band of Norse warriors from Ireland.

The Irish are always booting people into thereabouts

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By *unandbuckCouple over a year ago

Sheffield

"Yorkshire & Lancashire are in the north.

Cheshire is in denial."

Your geography is really bad. Denial is in Egypt.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Yorkshire & Lancashire are in the north.

Cheshire is in denial.

Your geography is really bad. Denial is in Egypt."

I tried to think up a joke based on the River Dee... but failed

Bed time

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By *ophieslutTV/TS over a year ago

Central

Chesterfield

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By *ost SockMan over a year ago

West Wales and Cardiff

"Are we forgetting the Midlands?

South is from wet bit at the bottom up to Northampton.

Midlands Northampton to Derby

North Derby up to The Border

But thats just my opinion."

I kinda agree with the Derby thing - once you go north of there into the Peak District, the landscape changes and becomes more "northern" - dry stone walls, bigger hills, dark satanic mills etc (ok, the last one is an exaggeration, but the buildings and impact on the landscape are still evident.

I get the urge to start humming the music from the hovis ad (Dvorak) once north of Wirksworth

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

Of course, that Hovis ad was filmed in Shaftsbury...Dorset.

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By *oxesMan over a year ago

Southend, Essex

"Yorkshire & Lancashire are in the north.

Cheshire is in denial.

Your geography is really bad. Denial is in Egypt.

I tried to think up a joke based on the River Dee... but failed

Bed time

Christ not thinking up a pun... you must be in dire straits.

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By *unandbuckCouple over a year ago

Sheffield

"Yorkshire & Lancashire are in the north.

Cheshire is in denial.

Your geography is really bad. Denial is in Egypt.

I tried to think up a joke based on the River Dee... but failed

Bed time

Christ not thinking up a pun... you must be in dire straits."

Christ was in Dire Straits ? Wtf!

Was he on guitar?

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By *oxesMan over a year ago

Southend, Essex

"not sure how many Vikings made it over that way though"

depends Norsk or Dansk the danes obviously coming from Denmark and Norsc under sygerd and Ragbar via Eireland many of the peoples putside of the big cities like Eohewic Known as Yorvic to the Danes who could not pronounce it (York). there was big change we suspect to tge local population however in the rural ateas and much of the modern elite near the border with the picts and scotti simply changed eligences.

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By *uckandbunnyCouple over a year ago

In your bed

Where ever it is you are probably south of someone.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Where ever it is you are probably south of someone. "

Unless you are at 64.7511 degrees North, 147.3494 degrees west

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By *unandbuckCouple over a year ago

Sheffield

"Where ever it is you are probably south of someone.

Unless you are at 64.7511 degrees North, 147.3494 degrees west

They people between 65 and 90 degrees North would be.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Where ever it is you are probably south of someone.

Unless you are at 64.7511 degrees North, 147.3494 degrees west

They people between 65 and 90 degrees North would be.

The co-ordinates I quoted are those of the North Pole - where every direction is South

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By *oncupiscentTonyMan over a year ago

Kent

Jct21 of the M25, even the signs say

Here Be Dragons

The North

Coventry

Luton

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By *erdita Von TeaseWoman over a year ago

nottingham

Don't ask me! As mentioned in another thread I'm clueless with directions! And seeing as I grew up on Guernsey anything past Weymouth is north to me

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By *uckandbunnyCouple over a year ago

In your bed

"Where ever it is you are probably south of someone.

Unless you are at 64.7511 degrees North, 147.3494 degrees west

They people between 65 and 90 degrees North would be.

The co-ordinates I quoted are those of the North Pole - where every direction is South

What if I was at the same coordinates but stood on your head and shoulders?

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Where ever it is you are probably south of someone.

Unless you are at 64.7511 degrees North, 147.3494 degrees west

They people between 65 and 90 degrees North would be.

The co-ordinates I quoted are those of the North Pole - where every direction is South

What if I was at the same coordinates but stood on your head and shoulders? "

I'd slip over on the ice

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By *uckandbunnyCouple over a year ago

In your bed

"Where ever it is you are probably south of someone.

Unless you are at 64.7511 degrees North, 147.3494 degrees west

They people between 65 and 90 degrees North would be.

The co-ordinates I quoted are those of the North Pole - where every direction is South

What if I was at the same coordinates but stood on your head and shoulders?

I'd slip over on the ice

Bumbum tish

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By *uckandbunnyCouple over a year ago

In your bed

Fat fingers.

Wrong emoji.

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By *eeBee67Man over a year ago

Masked and Distant

Doesnt the North start where the pronunciation of single vowels changes from Phonetic to everything having an R after it...

Bath to barth

Off to orrf

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Over there somewhere.

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"Doesnt the North start where the pronunciation of single vowels changes from Phonetic to everything having an R after it...

Bath to barth

Off to orrf

I reckon we will all be speaking in the same accent in 50 years time innit?

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By *imiUKMan over a year ago

Hereford

According to Stewart Maconie, the North officially starts in the most southern place that you are called "love" by strangers. I believe that line starts just south of Chester.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Doesnt the North start where the pronunciation of single vowels changes from Phonetic to everything having an R after it...

Bath to barth

Off to orrf

I reckon we will all be speaking in the same accent in 50 years time innit?

I fucking hope not

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Doesnt the North start where the pronunciation of single vowels changes from Phonetic to everything having an R after it...

Bath to barth

Off to orrf

I reckon we will all be speaking in the same accent in 50 years time innit?

I fucking hope not "

Surely "I fucking hope not PET"?

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"Doesnt the North start where the pronunciation of single vowels changes from Phonetic to everything having an R after it...

Bath to barth

Off to orrf

I reckon we will all be speaking in the same accent in 50 years time innit?

I fucking hope not

Surely "I fucking hope not PET"?"

...so, the endearment 'pet' must mean you are in the far north, way north of 'chuck', in the land of 'mam'

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Doesnt the North start where the pronunciation of single vowels changes from Phonetic to everything having an R after it...

Bath to barth

Off to orrf

I reckon we will all be speaking in the same accent in 50 years time innit?

I fucking hope not

Surely "I fucking hope not PET"?

...so, the endearment 'pet' must mean you are in the far north, way north of 'chuck', in the land of 'mam' "

Chuck? That's how southerners speak!

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By *eavenNhellCouple over a year ago

carrbrook stalybridge

the north begins where they start serving gravy in chip shops

proper northen sustenence

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Anywhere past the M25 if you're a Southerner

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

From the south

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

" the north begins where they start serving gravy in chip shops

proper northen sustenence

Seriously, you mean (and I'm not joking here) don't all chip shops serve gravy (and curry)?

I genuinely thought they did!

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

" the north begins where they start serving gravy in chip shops

proper northen sustenence

Seriously, you mean (and I'm not joking here) don't all chip shops serve gravy (and curry)?

I genuinely thought they did!"

Us northerns dip southerners in gravy and Yorkshire pud and eat them whole

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By *effrey45Man over a year ago

Lytham

Stuart maconie wrote a book - pies and prejudice - in search of the north where he tried to answer the same question

Derby and stoke were mentioned

That said his tour round the north had some laugh out loud moments

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Stuart maconie wrote a book - pies and prejudice - in search of the north where he tried to answer the same question

Derby and stoke were mentioned

That said his tour round the north had some laugh out loud moments "

I've heard it said that he feels the north isn't a line on a map but an attitude thing.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Plus I've heard it being said that a lot of comedians say that if you can make the north laugh then the rest of the country will be easier..as we do have a very wicked and hard sense of humour to crack

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

On the left

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By *eavenNhellCouple over a year ago

carrbrook stalybridge

" the north begins where they start serving gravy in chip shops

proper northen sustenence

Seriously, you mean (and I'm not joking here) don't all chip shops serve gravy (and curry)?

I genuinely thought they did!"
nope those heathens in the south frown at gravy with there chips but worship some thing rezembaling a sausage called a "savaloy " heathens as i say

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By *-angel-XWoman over a year ago

hell

Newark

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Anywhere north of the centre of Birmingham.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Stoke is definitely in the the north in this debate.

I'd say we are right in the middle,but if the choice is between north and south..well there is only one answer,surely no one wants be from down south.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Stoke is definitely in the the north in this debate.

I'd say we are right in the middle,but if the choice is between north and south..well there is only one answer,surely no one wants be from down south."

Ah, but do you have gravy on your chips?

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

" the north begins where they start serving gravy in chip shops

proper northen sustenence

Seriously, you mean (and I'm not joking here) don't all chip shops serve gravy (and curry)?

I genuinely thought they did!nope those heathens in the south frown at gravy with there chips but worship some thing rezembaling a sausage called a "savaloy " heathens as i say

There's no call for that! I mean, for gods' sake!

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Plus I've heard it being said that a lot of comedians say that if you can make the north laugh then the rest of the country will be easier..as we do have a very wicked and hard sense of humour to crack"

Only if you're southern. In which case you don't have a sense of humour

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

You could have some very well-to-do people from say Harrogate, that would fit more Southern stereotypes. And likewise there's parts of Cambridgeshire and even Luton that feel really "Northern".

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Just anything north of the border with the south

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By *iamondjoeMan over a year ago

Glastonbury

Ooop north?

It's from where people call each other "duck" via "love" and as far as "pet".

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"You could have some very well-to-do people from say Harrogate, that would fit more Southern stereotypes. And likewise there's parts of Cambridgeshire and even Luton that feel really "Northern"."

Went to Luton once, it didn't feel remotely northern!

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"You could have some very well-to-do people from say Harrogate, that would fit more Southern stereotypes. And likewise there's parts of Cambridgeshire and even Luton that feel really "Northern"."

because southerners are all posh and northerners are all daan pit?

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By *iamondjoeMan over a year ago

Glastonbury

Or is the point at which people start to pity/patronise Londoners?

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