Northern England, also known as the North of England or simply the North, is the second most northern area of Great Britain. It is considered separate due to cultural differences from the other areas – Scotland, Wales, Midlands and South. The borders vary but are commonly defined as the border to Scotland in the north to Midlands or near the River Trent, in the south.
About Northern England in brief
Northern England, also known as the North of England or simply the North, is the second most northern area of Great Britain. It is considered separate due to cultural differences from the other areas – Scotland, Wales, Midlands and South. The borders vary but are commonly defined as the border to Scotland in the north to Midlands or near the River Trent, in the south. This is roughly the three statistical regions: the North East, North West and Yorkshire and the Humber. These have a combined population of around 14. 9 million as of the 2011 Census and an area of 37,331 km2. The region has been controlled by many groups: the Brigantes as Brigantia, the largest Brythonic kingdom seen in Great Britain; the Romans as Britannia Inferior; the Angles as Northumbria and by Nordic tribes as Danelaw. After the Norman conquest in 1066, the Harrying of the North brought destruction. The area experienced Anglo-Scottish border fighting until the union of England and Scotland under the Stuarts. Many of the innovations of the Industrial Revolution began in Northern England, and its cities were the crucibles of many of the political changes that accompanied this social upheaval, from trade unionism to Manchester Capitalism. The deindustrialisation that followed in the second half of the 20th century hit Northern England hard, and many towns remain deprived compared with those in Southern England. Urban renewal projects and the transition to a service economy have resulted in strong economic growth in some parts of Northern England.
Some areas of Derbyshire, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire and Staffordshire have Northern characteristics and include satellites of Northern cities. From the Southern perspective, Northern England is sometimes defined jokingly as the north of the Watford Gap between Northampton and Leicester – a definition which would include much of the Midlands. Personal definitions also exist, typically based on the extent of the historical Northumbia, which exclude Cheshire, North Lincolnshire and Lincolnshire. When asked to draw a dividing line between North and South, Northerners tend to draw this line further south than Southerners do. For example, the North-on-Trent, in some northern reaches of Yorkshire, starts somewhere around the River Tees in the northernmost reaches of England, including Crewe, Stoke and Sheffield. The Isle of Man is occasionally included in definitions of \”the North\”, although it is politically and culturally distinct from England. The North is generally taken to comprise Cumberland, Northumberland, Westmorland, County Durham, Lancashire and Yorkshire, often supplemented by Cheshire. The boundary is sometimes drawn without reference to human borders, using geographic features such as the River Mersey and River Trent. This area consists of the ceremonial counties of Cheshire,. Cumbria, East Riding of Yorkshire and Merseyside, North Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, Tyne and Wear and West Yorkshire, plus the unitary authority areas of Northincolnshire and North Eastincolnshire.
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This page is based on the article Northern England published in Wikipedia (as of Dec. 03, 2020) and was automatically summarized using artificial intelligence.
