North and South, a bit of fun😁

I've always found it easiest, in my own mind, to take a straight line across, west to  east,  to include an area that would have somewhere like Buxton at its southern most point and the border with Scotland as the northern edge. This would be Northern England.

Anything below Buxton to Oxford and across as the Midlands excluding the obvious area of East Anglia, which is a separate entity.

The area west of Dorset but including Dorset itself, and north to South Gloucestershire is South West England. The remainder is South East England with a separate but unspecified area of "Home Counties"

There will probably be Geordies who think Sunderland is the South but I just put that down to a lack of good Geography teachers in Tyneside.🤣

The view from down here in the far SW is probably a little different to most. The further SW you go, the more the boundary moves with you until, according to folk living in the Scilly Isles, only they can be considered the true SW.😄

My view - Cotswolds in the SW? Nah, they’re the Midlands😀. West Dorset is in the SW but the east of the county isn’t proper SW. Somerset, Devon and Cornwall are definitely in. Anywhere the other side of Bristol is somewhere else and the North starts once we pass Birmingham.

Thanks, TDA, we need a giggle 😂😂😂

Yes, anyone living on the outer edges is likely to have a different view. Cotswolds are Midlands to us as well, East Anglia (Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex) definitely “East”. We don’t feel really North, until we cross the Tee's. Scarborough and Whitby feel “North” rather than East though. East is Bridlington and Hull🤣

Well really to a Geordie Gateshead is the south WN!

But also Geordies and Mackems are really two different species, having really different accents and customs, easily spotted though.

I think the Geordies are the ones that remove their t shirts at football matches🤣 Hilarious sight one Winter at Sheff Utd v Newcastle Utd. Made even funnier by a chorus of “who ate all the pies?”🤣🤣 We love them all up there……

Now you're speaking a foreign language, my ansum. We have Janners, Tinners, Piskies, Emmets and Grockles down this way, amongst others😂

Btw, we have Penzance Magpies too.

Back when I was a lad we lived in Cambs. anything past Peterborough was up north. I've never been past Derby so there's a world of up north to discover when we hang our boots up with the club.

JK

Dont know about up north and down south but it’s nice for places to keep their individual identity. I was born in Hanwell but then grew up in Hayes Middlesex, it was quite countrified then. Now all swallowed up by just being called Greater London. A real shame. I never ever thought that I lived in London.

Nice in north Devon though DEBSC, we love it

JK

I sort of envy you JK. All sorts of stunning places in the UK just waiting to be discovered. The South East is an area I don’t know well, although OH spent a lot of his childhood down there with family members. There are still a few Counties I have never visited. Mostly in SE.