Herga Kitty, I think your post might be helpful for me to understand better if I had a good world atlas, which I don't at this time (to my great frustration). My confusion stems from the impression I've gotten from Bill Sables here in the Mudcat forum, that he considers himself a Geordie, and the fact that he's listed in the Mudcat locater as living in Yorkshire.

Does anyone have a link to a good on-line map of the areas in question that I can look at to see how all of the above geographic references fit together? I'd be grateful for such a thing.