Can You Recommend Ten Places I Should See in the North West?

[vinteuil]

Nonsense, anything north of Watford Gap . . .

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... ectually, anything north of Wigmore Street.


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[cloughie]

Point of information...Liverpool and Manchester are NOT in the North. They are in the Midlands. True North is Cumbria and Northumberland. Most points have been covered, Lat, but pop across into Scotland...it's only just up the road.

Utter nonsense, the North includes all the land north of the old Southern boundaries of Lancashire and Yorkshire and probably bits of Cheshire and Derbyshire.

[cloughie]

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... ectually, anything north of Wigmore Street.


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Where?

[vinteuil]

Where?

... they tell me Wigmore Street is somewhere north of Oxford Street, but I'm not sure. I would never dare stray that far - I've heard tell of chaps going to such places, and perishing for lack of guacamole...


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[Bryn]

Utter nonsense, the North includes all the land north of the old Southern boundaries of Lancashire and Yorkshire and probably bits of Cheshire and Derbyshire.

Must admit I have always thought to the Peak District as being North Midlands, rather than part of 'the North'. That said, I have known some from Derbyshire who consider themselves northerners. Anyway, if the Peak District is to be included in 'the North', a favourite stroll of mine us from the Snake Inn, up Fair Brook to Fairbrook Naze and onto Kinder Scout, then down Grindsbrook Clough to Edale. Some wonderful views en route.

[cloughie]

Must admit I have always thought to the Peak District as being North Midlands, rather than part of 'the North'. That said, I have known some from Derbyshire who consider themselves northerners. Anyway, if the Peak District is to be included in 'the North', a favourite stroll of mine us from the Snake Inn, up Fair Brook to Fairbrook Naze and onto Kinder Scout, then down Grindsbrook Clough to Edale. Some wonderful views en route.

There is a place in the Pennines, near Woodhead and Holme Moss, where Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Cheshire and Lancashire all meet.

[Pulcinella]

Utter nonsense, the North includes all the land north of the old Southern boundaries of Lancashire and Yorkshire and probably bits of Cheshire and Derbyshire.

Not so sure about that, Cloughie.
My partner, from Sunderland, certainly does not think that Liverpool, where I'm from, is the North.
North-West maybe, which is of course what Lat-Lit is asking about in this thread.

[Serial_Apologist]

... they tell me Wigmore Street is somewhere north of Oxford Street, but I'm not sure. I would never dare stray that far - I've heard tell of chaps going to such places, and perishing for lack of guacamole...


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Some Londoners from north of The River say the same thing about south of the River being a wasteland, never worth visiting unless attempting navigation of the alleged road or rail networks en route to Crawley or Brighton. Niqab vision, I call it.

[Serial_Apologist]

Not so sure about that, Cloughie.
My partner, from Sunderland, certainly does not think that Liverpool, where I'm from, is the North.
North-West maybe, which is of course what Lat-Lit is asking about in this thread.

Anywhere north of a line where "I" is pronounced "eye" in non-RP rather than "oi" qualifies as being in "The North".

[vinteuil]

Some Londoners from north of The River say the same thing about south of the River ...

... well, I used to know some people who once ventured south of Cheyne Walk.

I wonder whatever happened to them?





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[oddoneout]

According to a BBC news report broadcast in 2013, the closure notices posted at the stations contained a legal error and had to be withdrawn and reprinted. The resultant delay enabled the line's defenders to gather their resources and get their campaign under way. By 2013 the number of journeys per year had increased to 1.2 million, compared with about 80,000 in the early 1980s.

I seem to remember another factor against closure was the realisation that an alternative route would be needed during engineering work on another line. My mother, who was a frequent and enthusiastic train traveller living in Arnside, was both astonished and annoyed that 'they' could consider shutting a line without considering the 'what ifs', whether planned or unplanned. I believe there is also a considerable amount of freight traffic carried on the line now.

[jayne lee wilson]

I'm glad you liked it. For the last 3 years we have been fortunate to live in Yealand, close enough to walk from the house, to Eaves Wood (via Hawes Water), through the Beech Circle, and on to the sea near Silverdale, and back by bus (not Sundays). And Arnside is still very genteel, with views of Morecambe Bay and the Lake District, with the Posh Sardine cafe, which is ... slightly posh (for Cumbria), and very small.

Are the Hawfinches still up there? The Woodwell?

[Serial_Apologist]

I seem to remember another factor against closure was the realisation that an alternative route would be needed during engineering work on another line. My mother, who was a frequent and enthusiastic train traveller living in Arnside, was both astonished and annoyed that 'they' could consider shutting a line without considering the 'what ifs', whether planned or unplanned. I believe there is also a considerable amount of freight traffic carried on the line now.

Maybe they watched The Titfield Thunderbolt, but switched off before the ending!

[LMcD]

[QUOTE=oddoneout;694710]I seem to remember another factor against closure was the realisation that an alternative route would be needed during engineering work on another line. My mother, who was a frequent and enthusiastic train traveller living in Arnside, was both astonished and annoyed that 'they' could consider shutting a line without considering the 'what ifs', whether planned or unplanned. I believe there is also a considerable amount of freight traffic carried on the line now.[/QUOTE]

Loss of coal traffic has apparently led to a significant decline in the overall amount of freight carried on the line.

[cloughie]

Anywhere north of a line where "I" is pronounced "eye" in non-RP rather than "oi" qualifies as being in "The North".

But then Sunderland is the North-East. Basically the North is made up of Yorkshire, the North-East and the North-West. Take a line from Hull to Sheffield to Manchester to Liverpool and then everywhere above that to the Scottish border is the North.