Here's another fact.
The modern North/South divide runs along the same parallel as the old boundary between the kingdom of Wessex and the Danelaw. This is also thought to be the reason why Northerners and Southerners have different mindsets. The civilised, cultured South versus the Northern wasteland full of ill-educated savages.

Not much has changed.
( Kroney, Thu 10 May 2012, 12:39, 4 replies, latest was 12 years ago)

we're harder
and blonder than you
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Thu 10 May 2012, 12:40, Reply)

haha!

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 10 May 2012, 12:42, Reply)

Apparently it runs from Cleethorpes to Gloucester
And is zig-zagged:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01dht1z
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 10 May 2012, 12:48, Reply)

I thought the Danelaw border ran up the route of Watling street.
And is really an East to West divide, so your your theory sucks balls.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Thu 10 May 2012, 12:50, Reply)

You aint ever been down Edmonton
or Watford
( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Thu 10 May 2012, 12:51, Reply)

I love Watford and it's town centre
Sorry, I meant street
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 10 May 2012, 12:53, Reply)

Tsk you ent bin the Harlequin

( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Thu 10 May 2012, 12:55, Reply)

I forgot about that place
at the end of the town street
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 10 May 2012, 12:56, Reply)