South Midlands

The South Midlands is a notional area of England. According to one definition, it is the southern portion of the East Midlands (Northamptonshire, south Leicestershire & Rutland) together with the northern portion of South East England (central Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes) and the western portion of the East of England (Bedfordshire), and just as there is no agreed definition for these areas, various organisations use the name South Midlands to refer to an area that is specific to their own way of dividing up the country. The term is not widely used and it is not one of the English administrative regions. One major usage is as a label for one of the areas identified by the Government for urban development.

The Government refers to an area centred on Milton Keynes as the Milton Keynes and South Midlands growth area. This area comprises the whole of Bedfordshire, the whole of Northamptonshire, and parts of Buckinghamshire (the Borough of Milton Keynes and Aylesbury Vale district) and may be understood to extend into neighbouring Harborough District in south Leicesteshire & Rutland and Rugby (borough). Until their abolition it straddled the boundaries of the Government Office Regions including portions of the East Midlands, East of England, and South East England regions.

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