OK Nutty, give us your best route from Edinburgh to Oxford, I'm always game for variety. I only said what I consider the good way, I'm willing to be persuaded.
Personally,I think the Yorkshire exponents here are being seduced by the widespread belief that, becaue Edinburgh is in the east, it ought to connect up with Yorkshire and the M1. Well, it is, and it does, in a way.You have to remember that Edinburgh is far from being an eastern town in absolute terms, though it is on the east side of Scotland.The thing is, it is actually west of Carlisle. Carlisle and Lancashire has always been a good route into England from Scotland: favoured by Robert the Bruce, the 1715 Jacobites, the 1745 Jacobites, Glaswegians with cans of lager on trains en route for Blackpool and Morecambe, etc etc.