Barbarian Northlands

Just to be perfectly clear for the Canadians and Americans, the definition of the North of Britain I grew up with was this:  You draw a line going from the Wash (at the top of East Anglia, on the Norfolk Coast) to the tip of the Bristol Channel (just below Wales).  Anything below this line is South, anything above is North.  Never mind that North takes up at least 2/3 of the country, or that some people in County Durham regard Halifax as "down South," or that there's a whole country up there that regards England as South of the Border.  North is north.