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Also don’t miss the Antiques Quarter, Millennium Gallery, the Winter Garden, Kelham Island Museum, and spend time browsing the many quirky shops and markets. 18. Tate Liverpool, Liverpool – one of the best attractions in North England The upbeat harbour town of Seaham is located on the beautiful Durham Heritage Coast and is most famous for its abundance of unique “sea glass”, which people travel from all over the country for a chance to collect (Seaham Hall Beach is one of the best beaches in the world for collecting sea glass). The annual report is used by professionals, researchers and policymakers. It will be launched at an event at City Hall in London on Wednesday featuring a keynote speech by Prof Sir Michael Marmot, the director of the Institute of Health Equity.

Deindustrialisation continued and unemployment gradually increased during the 1970s, but accelerated during the government of Margaret Thatcher, who chose not to encourage growth in the North if it risked growth in the South. [118] [119] The era saw the 1984–85 miners' strike, which brought hardship for many Northern mining towns. Northern metropolitan county councils, which were Labour strongholds often with very left-wing leadership (such as Militant-dominated Liverpool and the so-called " People's Republic of South Yorkshire"), had high-profile conflicts with the national government. The increasing awareness of the North–South divide strengthened the distinct Northern English identity, which, despite regeneration in some of the major cities, remains to this day. [118] Harrogate is a town in North Yorkshire and has been a popular tourist spot for decades, mainly because of the iconic Betty’s and the Turkish Baths located in the town centre. Harrogate sits within reach of nearby towns Ripon, Boroughbridge, Knaresborough and Masham. Liverpool is a maritime city in northwest England, where the River Mersey meets the Irish Sea. Liverpool was a key trade and migration port from the 18th to the early 20th centuries, and as mentioned previously, is the hometown of The Beatles. Meanwhile, the industrialising and urbanising cities of the North gave rise to many masterpieces of social realism. Elizabeth Gaskell was the first in a lineage of female realist writers from the North that later included Winifred Holtby, Catherine Cookson, Beryl Bainbridge and Jeanette Winterson. [55] Many of the angry young men of post-war literature were Northern, and working-class life in the face of deindustrialisation is depicted in novels such as Room at the Top (1959), Billy Liar (1959), This Sporting Life (1960) and A Kestrel for a Knave (1968). [53] [56] Other languages [ edit ]Older people in the north of England are more than twice as likely to live in non-decent homes that fail to meet basic health and safety standards. In the north it is 21% and in the south it is 9%. It makes a great base to explore the rest of Northumberland but also makes a charming place to visit in Northern England for a day or an afternoon.

Generally speaking, the North is a grouping of three statistical regions: the North East, the North West, and Yorkshire and the Humber. These had a combined population of 14.9 million at the 2011 census, an area of 37,331 km 2 (14,414 square miles) and 17 cities. [ citation needed] Northern England has a long history: it was where many battles between England and Scotland were fought, and it was the place where the Industrial Revolution began. Nowadays, most of the industry is gone and Northern England is poorer than Southern England. However, Northern England still has its own culture and way of speaking, and many Northerners are proud of the region. Northern England contains much of England's national parkland but also has large areas of urbanization, including the conurbations of Greater Manchester, Merseyside, Teesside, Tyneside, Wearside, South and West Yorkshire. With urbanisation, distinctive urban accents have arisen which often differ greatly from the historical accents of the surrounding rural areas and sometimes share features with Southern English accents. [45] Northern English dialects remain an important part of the culture of the region, and the desire of speakers to assert their local identity has led to accents such as Scouse and Geordie becoming more distinctive and spreading into surrounding areas. [51] Literature [ edit ] The daffodils of the Lake District are immortalised in Wordsworth's " I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud".Uniquely for such a large urban belt in Europe, these cities are all as recent as the Industrial Revolution – most of them previously scattered villages. [27] Vast urban areas have emerged along the coasts and rivers, and they run almost contiguously into each other in places. Near the east coast, trade fuelled the growth of major ports and settlements ( Kingston upon Hull, Newcastle upon Tyne, [c], Middlesbrough and Sunderland) to create multiple urban areas. [27] [28] Inland needs of trade and industry produced an almost continuous urbanisation from the Wirral Peninsula to Doncaster, taking in the cities of Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, and Sheffield, with a population of at least 7.6 million. [29] With that in mind, take a look below at the best places in the north of England to see. Have the best trip around England, we really have a beautiful country. 1.) The Lake District The beautiful jewel in the crown of Northern England,The Yorkshire Dales National Park is easily one of the best places to visit in northern England. The First World War was the turning point for the economy of Northern England. In the interwar years, the Northern economy began to be eclipsed by the South – in 1913–1914, unemployment in "outer Britain" (the North, plus Scotland and Wales) was 2.6% while the rate in Southern England was more than double that at 5.5%, but in 1937 during the Great Depression the outer British unemployment rate was 16.1% and the Southern rate was less than half that at 7.1%. [112] The weakening economy and interwar unemployment caused several episodes of social unrest in the region, including the 1926 general strike and the Jarrow March. The Great Depression highlighted the weakness of Northern England's specialised economy: as world trade declined, demand for ships, steel, coal and textiles all fell. [113] For the most part, Northern factories were still using nineteenth-century technology, and were not able to keep up with advances in industries such as motors, chemicals and electricals, while the expansion of the electric grid removed the North's advantages in terms of power generation and meant it was now more economic to build new factories in the Midlands or South. [114]

This affluent Northern City is also very easy on the eye. Located in northwest England not too far from Liverpool, it was originally a Roman fortress and today it’s still home to extensive Roman walls made of local red sandstone and even a Roman amphitheater (next to Grosvenor Park). It presents, the centre says, “the most detailed picture yet of the older population in England” and is based on data as well as speaking to older people about their lives. The phrase it's grim up north is associated with coal mining, industrial mills, weather and the way of life in the north of England during the Victorian and post World War I eras, when mills, coal mining, child labour and slums were common. The phrase is often used by those who are not from the north of England, who paint the north as being different to the south of England. The current Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, has quoted the north as being grim, but not a bad thing. [221] [222] [223] [224] [225] The phrase was quoted in 1991 when the band The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu a.k.a. The KLF used it in relation to a lot of places in the north of England including Cheshire, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, Merseyside and Yorkshire. As well as parts of the East Midlands Region and Cumbria and they use the phrase repeatedly in their song of the same name.style=”text-align: left;” align=”center”>Sometimes overlooked as a travel destination, the North of England is filled with some extraordinary scenery, beautiful historic architecture, a strong cultural identity, and many fantastic attractions and is a region of England definitely worth exploring. It also has the added bonus of being less expensive (and dare we say friendlier!). From charming cottages to lake-side cabins, and from exciting city breaks to hiking in the mountains, there’s an abundance of places to visit in North England. A trip to England is full of surprises, and none more so than an adventure in the north of England. Campaigners say the issue is a pressing one – as important as net zero, said Easton. The population in England is older than ever before, with almost 40% of people aged over 50 and almost 20% over 65.