How far up north before you're oooop-north?

[fatboy b]

So how far up the country do you have to be to be a northerner?? I used to think it was anywhere north of the M4 when I lived in Basingstoke .

[dan1981]

Watford Gap service station.

[ascayman]

anywhere outside the m25

[Lois22]

north of Birmingham, maybe Nottingham

Edited by Lois22 on Monday 4th August 13:20

[Morpeth]

North of the Tyne.

Gateshead is the south

[tamore]

ascayman said:

anywhere outside the m25

tonbridge?

[sleep envy]

the wring side of Bushey

[AbarthChris]

above birmingham, pretty obviously really considering thats the MIDLANDS!

[Plotloss]

North of Oxford is 'The North'

[Gun]

You're not oooop north until the permafrost starts appearing

[captainzep]

dan1981 said:

Watford Gap service station.

Correct. Any further north and people start gibbering unintelligibly when trying to communicate.

They helped us in the World Wars though so all due respect for them and their love of deep fried coal or whatever.

[VxDuncan]

There used to be a sign on the A34 just outside Winchester that said "Newbury and the North". Therefore anything North of Newbury is North. Must be true. The sign people say so.

[hornetrider]

Manchester is in the North, kinda. Chester is not. Therefore, somewhere in between.

[mft]

Stoke.

[Neil_H]

When you pass Staffordshire/ Derbyshire/ Nottinghamshire/ Lincolnshire.

[marctwo]

Anything north of the Thames is a different country :-)

[Prof Beard]

I was brought up (born in Watford) to believe the North started somewhere around Hemel Hempstead. But, having lived in the Midlands for some time, I now realise the North starts just above Stoke-on-Trent in the west and just above Nottingham in the east, above those you are most definitely "oop"

[minimax]

Lois22 said:

north of Birmingham, maybe Nottingham

Edited by Lois22 on Monday 4th August 13:20

nah, nottingham is wayyy too classy to be northern!

I think proper north starts at sheffield/doncaster/chester and northern weather starts at scotch corner/darlo

[RedCity]

When the motorway becomes cobbled

[Sarkmeister]

Anything below Barnsley is southern in my opinion....