Where is the north/south divide?

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The north and south of England are culturally, economically, historically and accently different. But where exactly is the line that splits the country?

Written and presented by
JAY FOREMAN and MARK COOPER-JONES

Edited by
JAY FOREMAN

Directed by
PAUL KENDLER

Cameras and sound by
JESS LAMB
ROBIN KAY
MATT WARD
EMMA LANGLEY

Facilities provided by
SHIFT 4

[BrokenCurtain]

This video is an affront to the proud British tradition of drawing straight lines through countries.

[MartijnVos]

Squiggly lines are always a sign that it's a good map. My history teacher would constantly draw maps of Europe with incredibly squiggly coastlines, so the entire school would just assume his maps were perfect. Took me a while to realise his squiggles were just random.

[HappyDragneels_page]

hats of to the bloke who just drew the scotish border

[Tyxaar]

Most people drawing the line: Straight line across Britain
That one guy: *_Scotland._*

[emeritus]

The Norf/Souf divide should be based on the amount of Greggs per capita

[Irishbloke]

2:48 “France” shows picture of the two Sudans

[michaelmoreton]

FLORIDA--The further north you drive, the more southern it gets.

[galaxlordcz]

How Marks eyebrows fall with intrigue at 0:05 always gets me.

[lightdeathguy]

You’re in the North if you have more Greggs than Waitrose and vice versa

[DavidWildgoose]

In the Middle Ages there were separate taxes for the North and the South. The North paid a tax for “defence against the Scots” and the South was taxed for “defence against the French”. The dividing line was roughly the River Trent. Interestingly, the Trent Valley is also the southernmost extent of the Ice Age glaciers. That’s the line!

[ruditheraven]

Its not as bad as in germany where it is split like:
-north vs south (sort of)
-west vs east (take a guess why)
-everyone vs bavaria
-and a big 16 state battle royale, everybody hates everybody
i love germany

[eckeall]

Although there's north island/south island rivalry in NZ, north island folk don't really think about the south island much, whereas the more evenly split sentiment is between Auckland and Northland (north of the Bombay hills) and Everywhere south of the Bombay hills. There's a saying that NZ stops at the Bombay hills, but has opposite meanings depending on which side of the divide you live in.

I also remember talking with someone who had lived in Auckland for a couple years who thought Wellington was in Waikato bc to them, Waikato was just whatever was south of Auckland.

[endeavourist]

Canada uses an east/west split almost exclusively. But that's because only 11 or so people actually live in the north, while the rest of us huddle along the southern border for warmth.

[lastsaneman]

Wales is the forgotten stepchild that lives under the stairs of the UK

[SeraphimKnight]

This is a criminally undersubscribed channel.

[BRyL]

In Poland it's more like North-West/South-East divide. Except for Silesia, which is kind of a Schroedinger's region: Depending on who you ask, it's either split in the middle, or North-Western despite most of it being in the south, or its own little country, or a part of Germany.

[snakelele]

"we need a geography teacher" - Mark Cooper-Jones, a geography teacher

[thelonesculler]

The midlands: *exist*
Notherners: Is this the South?
Southerners: Is this the North? (mahogany)

[EireProductions]

"What we need is a geography teacher."

-Mark Cooper-Jones, a geography teacher

[aibpresto]

"It would put Sheffield in the South, and that just doesn't feel right"

As someone who lives near Sheffield, I fully agree with this.