North East of England
The area north of Yorkshire, south of the Scottish Border, and alongside the North Sea, the North East of England has had an exciting history. It was a major center of Roman power, with Hadrian's Wall running through the area. Later, monks such as the Venerable Bede and Cuthbert of Lindisfarne led the local people, producing the Lindisfarne Gospels, one of the first translations of the Gospels in the world. Later still, Vikings landed here more than anywhere else, as it was easy to navigate from Scandinavia. In the 19th century through the modern day, the area was a major shipping and transit hub, and coal was mined here in enormous quantities to ship southwards to London.
Among supernaturals, the area is known for its large number of occult ruins. Between Roman priests, Viking Seiðr-workers, and monks conducting ceremonies that might not have been strictly orthodox, the area is littered with supernatural remnants of bygone eras. Hadrian's Wall is often thought to be the physical focus of what was once an enormous protective enchantment -- it doesn't work anymore, but when it did it was one of the largest spells cast in Europe, and it's hardly the only ruin that's interesting to supernatural scholars. Of course, the downside is that most of the more interesting ruins are often protected, and it only takes one thousand-year old Norwegian draugr to ruin a would-be occultist's day. Other than its many ruins, the area is mostly quiet on the supernatural front, with lone mage cabals, the odd werewolf packs, and so forth.
Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Usually abbreviated to simply 'Newcastle' (though there's also a Newcastle-under-Lyme, so be careful), Newcastle-upon-Tyne is the region's major city. It was a major seaport and railway juncture in the 19th century, though people had been using the port since Roman times, when it was a settlement called the Pons Aelius. It also has a well-earned reputation for offering the gentleman with little scruples about the company he keeps with an exciting "night-life".
Also potentially terminal night life, if some of the partiers chance upon any of the Gulls. Vampires, progeny of a Gangrel who had once been a Bristolian slaver, the Gull are night-borne sailors extraordinaire. They take on the forms of fish and seagulls, and boast an unnatural power over the weather, although they are unable to cross or travel on fresh water without aid. Making their havens in docks or in the holds of ships, the Gull claim a chilling power over storms and mists. Tales of becalmed boats whose crew fell prey to wasting sicknesses, of slave ships whose cargo all died before arriving at their ports of call and of sailors attacked by night by vicious seagulls have all been laid before the Gull. Much like the Phoenicians of old, the power of the Gulls resides at sea and in the many ports of the great British merchant fleet, and their fearsome strength and control extends from Newcastle to Bristol to Mumbai and Singapore.
In most ports, there is enough local power to check the dock control of the Gulls, but the Newcastle Gull are the exception. They dominate the local Kindred community, with the Invictus Prince and two of the Primogen all members of the bloodline. Rumors that several Gull have made deals with the “drowned men” are denied by the Gull involved, but seem to be corroborated by sightings of yachts and tugs owned by Gull and crewed by what look for all intents and purposes to be mutilated, waterborne corpses.