FabSwingers.com forum: Where does the North of England officially start

By *usman 199 OP Man
over a year ago

Stockport

Evening everyone

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By *ibblepilotMan
over a year ago

Preston

Shape. Fact!

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By *ibblepilotMan
over a year ago

Preston

Shap! Bloomin auto correct!

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By *ust PeachyWoman
over a year ago

Prestonish

"Shap! Bloomin auto correct!"

Where’s Shap? To a lot of people it’s anywhere north of Birmingham.

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By *elix SightedMan
over a year ago

Cloud 8

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.

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By *onnie 90Woman
over a year ago

Leeds

Where the clouds, dull skies, wind and rain begin.

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By *ibblepilotMan
over a year ago

Preston

When you get to the Kendal turn off you're still 20mins away!

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By *ibblepilotMan
over a year ago

Preston

"Shap! Bloomin auto correct!

Where’s Shap? To a lot of people it’s anywhere north of Birmingham.

Whoops - when you get to the Kendal turn off you're still 20mins away!

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By *ose-tinted GlassesMan
over a year ago

Glasgow / London

"Where does the North of England officially start?"
As a true Yorkshireman, it starts where I say it does.

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By *ouple in LancashireCouple
over a year ago

in Lancashire

Cheshire is classed as North West so draw a line across the country from there maybe..

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

Cumbria, couty durham, tyne and wear and northumberland are the north. Everything else is the south

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By *rder66Man
over a year ago

Tatooine

Where the whippets run free and from the cobbled streets echo the sounds of d*unken laughter.

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By *ose-tinted GlassesMan
over a year ago

Glasgow / London

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.

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By *agerMorganMan
over a year ago

Canvey Island

I thought it started at the Watford Gap!?

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By *ibblepilotMan
over a year ago

Preston

"Cheshire is classed as North West so draw a line across the country from there maybe..

Cheshire is definitely NOT the north barely northwest!

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

When you see t' dark satanic mills belching out 't smoke and you can hear t'clogs clattering down t'street when t' hooter goes.

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By *ibblepilotMan
over a year ago

Preston

"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!

Northwest at best fettler!

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By *UGGYBEAR2015Man
over a year ago

BRIDPORT

For me, it’s anywhere north of Blandford Forum.

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

Lancaster up.

But that's still a little too south for us Northerners.

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By *a LunaWoman
over a year ago

South Wales

Birmingham because in my mind that’s the part of the motorway where “the North” signposts really start making an appearance.

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

Scotch Corner

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By *ove2pleaseseukMan
over a year ago

Hastings

Luton

But in my head north of the thames is north.

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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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By *oiluvfunMan
over a year ago

Penrith

"Lancaster up.

But that's still a little too south for us Northerners.

Yep; anywhere South of Lancaster is definitely in the South

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By *hroatQueen_CATV/TS
over a year ago

Carlisle

"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.

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By *oiluvfunMan
over a year ago

Penrith

"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

"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 *elix SightedMan
over a year ago

Cloud 8

"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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By *ixiePoisonWoman
over a year ago

Darlington

I would say whoever gets Look North on the TV is North haha

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

Anywhere above the m25

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By *wiggy2112Woman
over a year ago

some where in Yorkshire

"When you see t' dark satanic mills belching out 't smoke and you can hear t'clogs clattering down t'street when t' hooter goes."

And where wakes week still exist

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By *hroatQueen_CATV/TS
over a year ago

Carlisle

"I would say whoever gets Look North on the TV is North haha "

lol

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By *am and johnCouple
over a year ago

york

At the golf course at Potter's Bar

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

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By *heVonMatterhornsCouple
over a year ago

Lincoln

A scone's throw north of the most northern point on the M25.

LvM

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

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By *hroatQueen_CATV/TS
over a year ago

Carlisle

"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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By *onguesandpunsMan
over a year ago

East Midlands

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...

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By *eah BabyCouple
over a year ago

Cheshire, Windermere ,Cumbria

Junction 17 M6 ish

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By *atthew78Man
over a year ago

Winsford

I'm in the middle of Cheshire and consider myself Northern and proud

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By *mokes n MirrorsCouple
over a year ago

Plymouth and Newcastle (sometimes)

When you live in this part of the country then the start of the M5 at Exeter is 'The North'.

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By *oiluvfunMan
over a year ago

Penrith

"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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By *onguesandpunsMan
over a year ago

East Midlands

"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 *hroatQueen_CATV/TS
over a year ago

Carlisle

"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... "
XL crisps too? Lol

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By *enBi76Man
over a year ago

Darlington

From M62 to A66 is North South, from A66 to border is North North (a bit of a compromise for the Northern northerners

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By *ichard574Man
over a year ago

West of Dfs

If you get cod with your chips, it's south; if it's haddock, it's north

If they try to put "curry sauce over, is it?, you've taken a wrong turn and ended up in Wales.

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

Surely the north starts where the Midlands ends which is stoke on trent so north of Stoke has to be crewe Nantwich Macclesfield etc

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By *ark169Man
over a year ago

Leamington

Anything north of High Barnet!

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

At the top end of the High Street. Opposite the chippy.

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

I know I'm up tit north when I have spam on my breakfast and scraps on my chips

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

Carlisle, but I'm working down rather than up.

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By *ris GrayMan
over a year ago

Dorchester

Watford

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By *ad NannaWoman
over a year ago

East London

"I thought it started at the Watford Gap!?

It does. Ignore everyone else.

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By *ad NannaWoman
over a year ago

East London

Is it where they start deep frying Mars Bars?

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

I’d say after Nottingham to be honest.

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By *ifty grades of shadyCouple
over a year ago

Carisbrooke, Isle of Wight

For us Southampton....

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

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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By *ose-tinted GlassesMan
over a year ago

Glasgow / London

"Carlisle, but I'm working down rather than up. "

This is true. Between the borders and Carlisle is some sort of weird limbo area.

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

Watford gap innit

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By *ackbydemandMan
over a year ago

Leicester

Somewhere on the outskirts of Crewe, anyone further South is basically a Cockney.

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By *ornycougaWoman
over a year ago

Wherever I lay my hat

The north side of Blackfriars Bridge

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By *rishman75Man
over a year ago

Chessington/epsom

earlscourt

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By *beeMan
over a year ago

Bristol

Gloucester

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By *hroatQueen_CATV/TS
over a year ago

Carlisle

"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 *DW1983Man
over a year ago

Aberdeen, Leeds, Sheffield

Where does the North start?

Where the South finishes.

But where does the South finish...?

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By *JB1954Man
over a year ago

Reading

"I thought it started at the Watford Gap!?

I have always thought this living in South of England

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

Anything North of the M62 is North

Anything between M4 and M62 is Midlands

Beneath the M4 is South.

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By *ucka39Man
over a year ago

Newcastle

When you see a sign saying north east before that it'll keep telling you north ----

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By *oomarangMan
over a year ago

Chester

"Shap! Bloomin auto correct!

Where’s Shap? To a lot of people it’s anywhere north of Birmingham.

You’re spot on

That’s exactly what I would of said north of the midlands

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By *hePerkyPumpkinTV/TS
over a year ago

Bristol

Anything beyond Bristol is the North as fae as I'm concerned

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By *an1978Woman
over a year ago

GONE/TIMEOUT (No DMs please)

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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

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 (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Surely the time honoured way to sort out where you are from geographically depends on what you call a bread roll. Lol.

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

Surely the time honoured way to sort out where you are from geographically depends on what you call a bread roll. Lol.

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By *odgerMooreMan
over a year ago

Carlisle

Hemel Hempstead

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By *ictoria_1976TV/TS
over a year ago

Lanson

"Surely the time honoured way to sort out where you are from geographically depends on what you call a bread roll. Lol. "

You can say that again!

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By *ictoria_1976TV/TS
over a year ago

Lanson

Folk in west Cornwall consider anything above Truro as.... up norf'

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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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By *xhib12Man
over a year ago

Blyth

"Where does the North start?

Where the South finishes.

But where does the South finish...?"

Where the north starts, obviously.

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By *r LickalotapussMan
over a year ago

Stansted Airport

Where the M25 gives way to the M1. Hahaha.

Love the culture up north. Much more people people if you know that I mean.

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By *ouple in LancashireCouple
over a year ago

in Lancashire

"Where does the North start?

Where the South finishes.

But where does the South finish...?"

The wet bit?

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By *xhib12Man
over a year ago

Blyth

"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.

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By *ouple in LancashireCouple
over a year ago

in Lancashire

"Surely the time honoured way to sort out where you are from geographically depends on what you call a bread roll. Lol. "

Surely you mean a barm..?

Or a cob.. ?

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By *ouple in LancashireCouple
over a year ago

in Lancashire

"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 *ickeyblueeyes7Man
over a year ago

newport

For those living in London it starts the other side if Watford

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By *heFabtasticsCouple
over a year ago

brentwood

Anywhere they call lunch dinner

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

"For those living in London it starts the other side if Watford

As soon as people start talking funny

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By *evils PuddingCouple
over a year ago

the pub or in the nude in Paisley

Depends which direction you're traveling from. Going from Scotland it starts at the border.

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By *ak777Man
over a year ago

shaw

where men are men and sheep are nervous and women stand up on buses

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By *attMonroMan
over a year ago

NE and Central Belt

The North starts somewhere between Chesterfield and Sheffield.....

.....however, I suggest people in Cornwall should be honorary Northerners as they get a shot deal from London also.

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

I'm just a few miles from the border which is about as north as can be.

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By *ickeyblueeyes7Man
over a year ago

newport

"where men are men and sheep are nervous and women stand up on buses

Thought that was Wales

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By *avie65Man
over a year ago

In the west.

England is all south to me.

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

There’s a sign in the M1 specifically to warn Southerners they are entering The North

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By *iberius61Man
over a year ago

Pontefract

Growing up in Birmingham, I'd probably have said Stoke on the west, maybe Sheffield on the east. Now living in Yorkshire...I'd probably go with the same.

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

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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By *dventurous biMan
over a year ago

tesside

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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By *eckard2019Man
over a year ago

Consett

"Scotch Corner

Yep

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By *NL Social SpurschickWoman
over a year ago

Social Zone

Anything above Watford is north surly

From the Wash, draw a line over to Chester anything above that is tup North

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By *uke-de-PleasureMan
over a year ago

Leeds

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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By *ouple in LancashireCouple
over a year ago

in Lancashire

"For those living in London it starts the other side if Watford

As soon as people start talking funny

Croydon then ..

Innit..

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By *orthyorkypairCouple
over a year ago

North Yorkshire

"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

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 *ris GrayMan
over a year ago

Dorchester

Luton

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By *ophieslutTV/TS
over a year ago

Central

Approximately, just north of Burton on Trent

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By *ucka39Man
over a year ago

Newcastle

North Yorkshire

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By *ackformore100Man
over a year ago

Tin town

"Evening everyone

Isnt it carlisle?

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By *ose-tinted GlassesMan
over a year ago

Glasgow / London

"Us Northerners dont call folks Duck!!!

I know, right? Surely that’s a Midlands thing?

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

I’ve never been ooop north simply because it starts about 5 meters from wherever I’m standing at the time.

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By *ouple in LancashireCouple
over a year ago

in Lancashire

"Us Northerners dont call folks Duck!!!

I know, right? Surely that’s a Midlands thing?"

Derbyshire/Notts way I think but not up here..

'love' is the word..

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By *oding1Man
over a year ago

marlow

"I thought it started at the Watford Gap!?

That's right

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By *egoMan
over a year ago

Preston

For me it’s Birmingham. If we’re talking just North and South.

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By *skyouneverknowMan
over a year ago

Calne

Oxford is pretty northern

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

"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 *rlandoMan
over a year ago

Yorks/Lincs

As you go past the service station at the Watford gap .

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By *orthyorkypairCouple
over a year ago

North Yorkshire

"Us Northerners dont call folks Duck!!!

I know, right? Surely that’s a Midlands thing?"

yup mostly Notts Derbyshire, Lincolnshire etc

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

"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

"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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