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There is also a perceived cultural divide in England between the north and the south. The BBC television series It's Grim Up North and subsequent book attempted to tease out some of these divisions. [25] While those in the north complained of having fewer cultural opportunities, the book also provided a view of southern life as faceless and ...
The existence of the North–South divide is fiercely contested. Some sources claim it exists but also that it is even expanding. For example, a report in 2001 found that North East England, North West England and Scotland had poorer health levels than South. [1] The same data have been interpreted otherwise to indicate only a very small ...
The Great Exhibition of the North is putting paid to tired stereotypes of the region – but now, the North itself is becoming divided. England's north-south divide is history – but the nation's ...
Watford Gap is a low point through a range of hills providing an easy route between the South Eastern and Midland areas of England. It is near the small village of Watford, Northamptonshire. The gap is 3.5 miles (6 km) north-east of Daventry and 2 miles (3 km) west of Long Buckby.
Merseyside originally constituted a region in itself, but in 1998 it was merged into the North West England region, creating the nine present-day regions. [16] The nine regions were used as England's European Parliament constituencies from 1999 until Britain's departure from the European Union; [17] and as statistical NUTS level 1 regions.
Devon and Cornwall – part of the official South West region; East of England – as region; East Midlands – as region; North East England – North East England and Yorkshire and the Humber; North West England – as region; Thames and Solent – Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, London, Oxfordshire, Hampshire
The Danelaw (/ ˈ d eɪ n ˌ l ɔː /, Danish: Danelagen; Norwegian: Danelagen; Old English: Dena lagu) [2] was the part of England between the early tenth century and the Norman Conquest under Anglo-Saxon rule in which Danish laws applied. [3]
The Northern Independence Party is a secessionist and democratic socialist party founded in 2020, in response to the perceived growth of the North–South divide in England, [64] aiming for the formation of an independent north of England under the name of Northumbria, after the early medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom of the same name. The party ...