Since when has wales ever been considered “the north”?
There’s no way people consider places like Leicester, Skegness or Lincoln as being in the South.
When did Cardiff and Birmingham become the North?
What’s up with that little unglaciered enclave up around Hull?
Is the prospect of Hull really that horrifying even for a wall of ice?
Explains a lot
I’ve watched enough Jay Foreman videos to know that the “North/South divide” is term with a million definitions that nobody seems to agree on, but what is going on there? Leicster is in the south, but Ross-on-wye is in the North?
Literally nobody ever, in the history of the UK, has *ever* described Carmarthenshire as “Northern”.
From where I am everything is north.
On what planet is Birmingham, which is halfway to France, the north?
Anything above Watford Gap Services is the North
According to glaciation, much of North Yorkshire is in the South and King’s Lynn is in the North…
Calling that the north/south divide is crazy, the midlands exists
Also yeah it’s a coincidence, our north south divide mostly comes from when the north of England was the Danelaw in Saxon times
Not sure how the boundaries of the map were drawn, if not from the glacier image?
So yes, probably not a coincidence.
Winter is coming
Geography and Geology dictate resources. Resources dictates industry.
The North is where most things were produced because that’s where the coal, rocks and metals required are mostly located, cuts down transport costs.
Industrial labour is hired on the cheap to maximise profits, resulting in a class system of rich/vs poor.
An entire social system is built around a happenstance of environmental factors.
Obviously there are other factors at work, but this basic overview certainly explains a correlation.
Wtf is that 2nd map?! Do you live further north than Guildford? If yes then you do not live in the south!
Possibly one of the worst north/south divides I’ve ever seen
To be fair (picture two) that’s pretty much an East West divide as much as it is North South.
This puts most of West Yorkshire, including Bradford, Huddersfield and Leeds in the south. Doesn’t feel right to me lol
As a Kentish Man i know for a fact that the North/South divide is the River Thames.
Terminal moraine, with fossils from Lincolnshire was discovered at finchley when the underground was being dug so glaciation was likely to have reached further south than shown on that map. I’m no expert so there maybe some other explanation.
I expect it might have more to do with coal deposits. Though that is a close match.
Cardiff isn’t even north in Wales, let alone the entirety of the UK.
What you’re saying is everyone in the north defrosted? This is very interesting.
Well, kinda. Sea levels were noticeably lower back then and the British isles were connected to mainland Europe resulting in the landmass of England being considerably larger in the south in what is now the English Channel.
Always knew my Brummy mate was a northerner and now it’s confirmed
Was the person who created the North/South divide drunk or stoned?
That North/South divide pic is pure rage bait.
It’s crazy to me that, as someone who lives in the Highlands, that England considers Cardiff as “the north”.
Why is Headington tagged as a location (an area in Oxford), but oxford isn’t! How strange!
That’s why you have the isostatic rebound, Cornwall sinking and Scotland rising everso slowly.
What am I supposed to be caring about here.
Congratulations OP you have united every person in England and Wales
Northerners 🤝 Southerners 🤝 Midlanders 🤝 The Welsh: This map is an absolute crap attempt at the so-called north-south divide
Does my head in being from the West Mids and being called a Northerner/Southerner, depending on where you go lol
Lasses still going out in the toon with their bacardigans on
This is absolute bait lol that is not the north south divide
Leicester is not in the south, what an awful map.
The ice sheet came as far south as Finchley Road underground station …
I wonder if this has anything to do with the coast style in Cornwall and Pembrokeshire, since they’re quite alike in their weathering.
Nope. Not coincidence. The glaciers pushed the fertile top soil south when it slowly pushed southward. When humans came back and started farming there was a noticeable difference in what the land could be used for, and still is to an extent. This naturally led to the people living there moving/staying one side or the other depending on what they farmed/ate.
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Grim up north innit
Still be someone in shorts and T-shirt.
Since when has wales ever been considered “the north”?
There’s no way people consider places like Leicester, Skegness or Lincoln as being in the South.
When did Cardiff and Birmingham become the North?
What’s up with that little unglaciered enclave up around Hull?
Is the prospect of Hull really that horrifying even for a wall of ice?
Explains a lot
I’ve watched enough Jay Foreman videos to know that the “North/South divide” is term with a million definitions that nobody seems to agree on, but what is going on there? Leicster is in the south, but Ross-on-wye is in the North?
Literally nobody ever, in the history of the UK, has *ever* described Carmarthenshire as “Northern”.
From where I am everything is north.
On what planet is Birmingham, which is halfway to France, the north?
Anything above Watford Gap Services is the North
According to glaciation, much of North Yorkshire is in the South and King’s Lynn is in the North…
Calling that the north/south divide is crazy, the midlands exists
Also yeah it’s a coincidence, our north south divide mostly comes from when the north of England was the Danelaw in Saxon times
Not sure how the boundaries of the map were drawn, if not from the glacier image?
So yes, probably not a coincidence.
Winter is coming
Geography and Geology dictate resources. Resources dictates industry.
The North is where most things were produced because that’s where the coal, rocks and metals required are mostly located, cuts down transport costs.
Industrial labour is hired on the cheap to maximise profits, resulting in a class system of rich/vs poor.
An entire social system is built around a happenstance of environmental factors.
Obviously there are other factors at work, but this basic overview certainly explains a correlation.
Still didn’t put my big coat on.
[The actual north south divide](https://youtu.be/ENeCYwms-Cc?si=RkKUS80TzVx9b9ya)
“I’m sweating like a pig, man!”
https://youtu.be/jxXbpHeIrUc?si=uLkiiNqmue6LsLwG
Wtf is that 2nd map?! Do you live further north than Guildford? If yes then you do not live in the south!
Possibly one of the worst north/south divides I’ve ever seen
To be fair (picture two) that’s pretty much an East West divide as much as it is North South.
This puts most of West Yorkshire, including Bradford, Huddersfield and Leeds in the south. Doesn’t feel right to me lol
As a Kentish Man i know for a fact that the North/South divide is the River Thames.
Terminal moraine, with fossils from Lincolnshire was discovered at finchley when the underground was being dug so glaciation was likely to have reached further south than shown on that map. I’m no expert so there maybe some other explanation.
I expect it might have more to do with coal deposits. Though that is a close match.
Cardiff isn’t even north in Wales, let alone the entirety of the UK.
What you’re saying is everyone in the north defrosted? This is very interesting.
Well, kinda. Sea levels were noticeably lower back then and the British isles were connected to mainland Europe resulting in the landmass of England being considerably larger in the south in what is now the English Channel.
Always knew my Brummy mate was a northerner and now it’s confirmed
Was the person who created the North/South divide drunk or stoned?
That North/South divide pic is pure rage bait.
It’s crazy to me that, as someone who lives in the Highlands, that England considers Cardiff as “the north”.
Why is Headington tagged as a location (an area in Oxford), but oxford isn’t! How strange!
That’s why you have the isostatic rebound, Cornwall sinking and Scotland rising everso slowly.
What am I supposed to be caring about here.
Congratulations OP you have united every person in England and Wales
Northerners 🤝 Southerners 🤝 Midlanders 🤝 The Welsh: This map is an absolute crap attempt at the so-called north-south divide
Does my head in being from the West Mids and being called a Northerner/Southerner, depending on where you go lol
Lasses still going out in the toon with their bacardigans on
This is absolute bait lol that is not the north south divide
Leicester is not in the south, what an awful map.
The ice sheet came as far south as Finchley Road underground station …
I wonder if this has anything to do with the coast style in Cornwall and Pembrokeshire, since they’re quite alike in their weathering.
Nope. Not coincidence. The glaciers pushed the fertile top soil south when it slowly pushed southward. When humans came back and started farming there was a noticeable difference in what the land could be used for, and still is to an extent. This naturally led to the people living there moving/staying one side or the other depending on what they farmed/ate.
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