Greetings dear English friends,

I am doing a little project and for that I need to be able to divide England into a Northern and a Southern part. Now here's the issue, I am aware of the different culture the North and South has, but I cannot put a clear line where one part begins and the other stops. I would love to hear your opinions about how I should split up the lands of the three lion's and appreciate any good answers, honestly.

For reference, I added these pictures because those are what the internet gave me as a answer

by The_Silesia_one

14 comments

  1. Lincolnshire defies categorisation imo. Somehow Skegness and Grantham are northern but Newark is midlands 

  3. The first pic is good. I think anything around Sheffield/Liverpool above can be considered the north.

    There is also the Midlands though, containing Shropshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Birmingham, Warwickshire etc. So not strictly southern.

  4. I’m Cornish so anything past the Tamar is up north.

  5. Any map that appears to put Cambridge in The North may be open to debate.

  6. None of these maps really fit imo. Maps 1 and 3 are probably closest but I’d say you need to include the Northern end of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire in there.

    Map 2 is ridiculous, who is realistically considering Cambridge as being in the North?

  7. Personally I’d draw the line along the southern borders of Shropshire, Staffordshire, Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire, then split Lincolnshire in half

  8. Ancient chronicles deemed anywhere north of the Trent as the north south divide.

  9. The Midlands is a thing! Birmingham is Midlands, but feels slightly more south than north imo.

  10. If we distinctively say the midlands are a fabrication made up by some delusional minds in Birmingham, #4 makes the most logical sense, its had research behind it.

  11. If you’re talking to someone who considers themselves to be from The North, the North starts about ten miles south of wherever they’re from.

    The South doesn’t actually flip over similarly, oddly enough. Northerners seem to be more obsessed with being Northerners than Southerners are with being Southerners.

    All this to say that I’m from the north west corner of Norfolk, pretty much on a level with Stoke, and I’ve never had a flaming clue whether I’m north or south, or what meaningfully differentiates the two.

  12. You will never find generally agreed upon answer for this question. Almost every person/ town in the country has a different opinion on where the divide is. Also the Midlands are culturally, economically and usually geographically different from both the north and the south.

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