Anything past Winchester (or Watford at a push) is the north to me![]()
That's what I suspected, and fair enough if you're from the south coast!
I went to Uni in Leicester - a 4 hour drive south from where I lived - and was consistently told I was still in the north. The fact that it was the middle of "The Midlands" clearly wasn't enough of a clue to people. I'd never heard of the Watford Gap services until I was an adult and lots of Londoners told me it's where the North starts - I tried to explain that if it's close enough to the south that lots of southerners know it and no northerners do then it's maybe not a good measure
