''Up North'' is a

travel book Travel is the movement of people between distant geographical locations. Travel can be done by foot, bicycle, automobile, train, boat, bus, airplane, ship or other means, with or without luggage, and can be one way or round trip. Travel ca ...

by Charles Jennings, detailing his excursion from the south to

Northern England Northern England, or the North of England, refers to the northern part of England and mainly corresponds to the Historic counties of England, historic counties of Cheshire, Cumberland, County Durham, Durham, Lancashire, Northumberland, Westmo ...

. Throughout the duration of the book, written in 1992, he conveys a sense of grimness and hopelessness " up north" with a certain acerbic wit; he suggests, for instance, that the name

Grimsby Grimsby or Great Grimsby is a port town in Lincolnshire, England with a population of 86,138 (as of 2021). It is located near the mouth on the south bank of the Humber that flows to the North Sea. Grimsby adjoins the town of Cleethorpes dir ...

may be dissected as combining 'grim' and 'by the sea'. The Mayor of Grimsby at the time commented that Jennings "should have stayed under his duvet down south."

References

British travel books 1992 non-fiction books Books about England Northern England {{travel-book-stub