Which British county has the most regional identity and pride?

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Reply 40

halbeth

Yorkshire or Cornwall.

Norfolk maybe

Yorkshire.

Cornwall's a nicer place, mind.
*ducks missile*

Reply 43

xps.systems

Greater London surely?

We could probably function quite well as a separate country and have a tidy economy too.

Reply 44

>Anna<

I'm going to jump on the bandwagon of repping our home counties....SOMERSET!
We give you cider, cheese and The Wurzels - what more could you want?!

We also have many Facebook groups including "I'm from Somerset and I ******* loves it!"
We even have people wanting to be from Somerset - "I'm nearly from Somerset and would ******* love it...."
:yep:

Reply 45

Pialamo

cornwall, bloody freaks

Reply 46

Pialamo

xps.systems

Greater London surely?

We could probably function quite well as a separate country and have a tidy economy too.

but there's so many different types of Londoners that we all clash and fail epically

Reply 47

Bismarck

burninginme

Which British county would you say has the most regional pride? Most British counties have little if any regional identity that makes it distinct from the next county, unlike the concept of American states, which often have very distinct regional identities and cultures (I know England, Wales, Scotland and NI are politically closer to states than counties are, but let's ignore that).

Also, I would say excluding Cornwall as while it is probably the British county with the most regional identity, it is very debatably it's own country being distinct from England with it's own celtic language.

You expect people here to have taken a poll? Or are you looking for baseless generalizations?

Reply 48

Henry JW

Probably Cornwall. Their are actually some lunatics down in that county who want it independent. I followed a link from a politics website onto a forum where the Cornish nats congregate and some of the stuff they say about 'the english' would make Mel Gibson blanch.

Tyne and Wear also worth a mention, although Newcastle should really be part of Northumberland in my opinion. On the opposite end of the scale, I think somewhere dull like Northamptonshire is likely to be the most self-hating county.

Reply 49

username282405

Yorkshire. Even though its a ******** and I hate going there. Good chippys though.

Other mentions: Merseyside, Northumberland. I seriously hope those saying places like Lincolnshire and Cheshire are taking the piss.

Reply 50

username260542

minimo156

Yorkshire

Or Lancashire with our hotpot! :p:

i second, have you heard of the lancashire hotpots? the band i mean

Reply 51

Cooljack

Yorkshire has more stereotypes than any other county in england, if thats atall representative of regional identity.

yorkshire

Devon!

People don't really think about it, they think of it's brash southern neighbour (like the Canada of the UK!), but really we're the best, and we freakin know it. We just won Another! "best quality of life" county from some bigwig government windbag, but we didn't need that to know.

The cornish make a hue and cry about their independence, but really they're just whiny. The Devonians are quietly, happily independent.

Reply 54

placenta medicae talpae

eee Meerseysiiiide

Reply 55

thatwhichiam

Yorkshire, quite clearly.

Reply 56

butthead7

buckinghamshire of course

Reply 57

LaurenFah

Tyne & Wear.
Already been mentioned twice though, but still.

We basically have our own language? Haha. We also have things like stotties and pease pudding to be proud of.

Reply 58

rmanoj

jamz0770

Kent, we kept the Nazi's out with spitfire's :smile:

Reply 59

happy-and-lost

Nahro

The Royal County of Berkshire :smile:

Joking, right?

I lived in Newbury for 7 years, but for all the individuality and identity the place had I may as well have been living in any southern town. I guess it did have the agricultural show...

To the original question: Yorkshire. Aye.