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[Alex321]

The Devide is of cause Watling Street, South of it is just southern softies. North of it we are proud Vikings so you'd better beware.

I thought the diving line between North and South was the Thames

Nope. The dividing line is definitively the M62

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Nope. The dividing line is definitively the M62
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[Dogtrousers]

One way of dividing the country would be to plot on a map all of the motorway signs that indicate a compass direction with a definite article eg "The North".

There's probably a motorway enthusiasts website somewhere that has a signs database.

Stoke stakes its claim to be in the midlands.

 

[Toshiba Boy]

 

[FishFright]

One way of dividing the country would be to plot on a map all of the motorway signs that indicate a compass direction with a definite article eg "The North".

There's probably a motorway enthusiasts website somewhere that has a signs database.

Stoke stakes its claim to be in the midlands.
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If you're in the Northern half of the city you tend to head North to Manchester for shopping trips , big nights out etc .
In the Southern half Birmingham has the same draw. So I reckon the divide is in Stoke .

 

[Dogtrousers]

When I was at school (in the Black Country) a family moved in from far off exotic Derby. They definitely talked funny, and we conjectured that their dad had a whippet, worked in t'Mill and said "Ee by gum"

However if I look at a map I'm shocked to see that Derby is south of Stoke. That has to be a cartographic error, surely.

 

[Mike_P]

I thought the diving line between North and South was the Thames

A major river will be a diving line but as to how it equates to North v South is open to debate. I heard the same thing said of the Trent but in both cases on the west side of the country neither would be an obstacle.

 

[Tenkaykev]

I think you need to chop off the three other nations ( Scotland, Wales, Cornwall ) then draw a straight nine between North/ South, and East/ West compass points. Anything above the intersection is North 😉

 

[Mike_P]

One way of dividing the country would be to plot on a map all of the motorway signs that indicate a compass direction with a definite article eg "The North".

There's probably a motorway enthusiasts website somewhere that has a signs database.

Stoke stakes its claim to be in the midlands.
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Afraid that's common throughout the country.

In terms of the UK mainland as a whole the centre is near enough Harrogate which is why for many years the town had principal ICI and British Gas offices.

 

[Andy in Germany]

I think you need to chop off the three other nations ( Scotland, Wales, Cornwall ) then draw a straight nine between North/ South, and East/ West compass points. Anything above the intersection is North 😉

I think in Geography it was generally agreed that if you divided by the main demographic differences like life expectancy, income, education et c the line went from the Bristol Channel to The Wash.

Having grown up with 'The North' and 'The South' as reference points, it made Germany very confusing at first.

 

[Profpointy]

In the (very enjoyable) film Kinky Boots, Chiwetal Ejifor's outrageous transvestite character refers to Northampon as "in the North". The proprietor of the shoe company corrects him, but Ejifor responds "The North starts at Tottenham court road"

 

[matticus]

In the (very enjoyable) film Kinky Boots, Chiwetal Ejifor's outrageous transvestite character refers to Northampon as "in the North". The proprietor of the shoe company corrects him, but Ejifor responds "The North starts at Tottenham court road"

Lovely, thanks Prof.

So can we all agree that settles it now?

 

[craigwend]

A major river will be a diving line but as to how it equates to North v South is open to debate. I heard the same thing said of the Trent but in both cases on the west side of the country neither would be an obstacle.

In Kingston-Upon-Hull, the River Hull discects the city into East & West Hull, there is a 'North Hull' in the West of the City, luckily though the River Humber cuts accross the 'bottom' of the city, so there is no South Hull...

 

[Slick]

Gawd sake, everyone knows that anything south of Dumfries is down south.

Now its settled.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

I thought the official line went from the Dee estuary up to the Humber estuary at Hull

Chester is debatable
Liverpool is North - clearly
The Wirral is North because making the place Lilly Savage came from South is clearly wrong (although Heswall is not so clear!!!!)

I have no clue about fringe area in the Far East - but Hull does not sound Southern or Midlands to me

anyway - that's how I think of it