I live in Chesterfield. This is about as far north as you can get where people can claim to live in the Midlands rather than the North. The border with South Yorkshire is immediately north of the town.
Although saying that, I think some people in Cheshire (places like Macclesfield) claim to live in the Midlands. I think that's ridiculous though.
Wiki gets rather muddled up near parts of the boundary and isn't consistent. Those two links (one redirects) don't agree with each other in the East, and by what seems to be a consensus among most people in this thread with local knowledge, the High Peak area of North Derbyshire is in the North not the Midlands as Wiki claims.
I think when most people talk about the North they mean the North of England, of course that will also be the British Midlands with regards to the UK as a whole. Anyway, I'd class the North of England as anywhere upwards from Cheshire, Greater Manchester and the Southern areas of Yorkshire.
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Certainately from the Western half of the country I think the North starts as soon as you're in Cheshire, I would find Stoke is in the Midlands.
Although many people would say Watford.
Although saying that, I think some people in Cheshire (places like Macclesfield) claim to live in the Midlands. I think that's ridiculous though.
No, I said Google maps. Are you refusing to do this because you know you're wrong? Or have you tried and seen this yourself?
Edit: http://www.google.co.uk/#hl=en&cp=12&gs_id=1a&xhr=t&q=The+Midlands&pf=p&sclient=psy-ab&safe=off&site=&source=hp&pbx=1&oq=the+midlands&aq=0&aqi=g4&aql=&gs_sm=&gs_upl=&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=f9ef8465024f9e21&biw=1432&bih=765
When I drive south from Newcastle, it takes about two hours to get to Sheffield!
I did say "As far as I'm concerned"; others are free to disagree.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_England
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midlands_(England)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_England
Wiki gets rather muddled up near parts of the boundary and isn't consistent. Those two links (one redirects) don't agree with each other in the East, and by what seems to be a consensus among most people in this thread with local knowledge, the High Peak area of North Derbyshire is in the North not the Midlands as Wiki claims.
Ehhhhh!!