| MELROSE | Small town in the Borders (pop 2,500), with a ruined abbey founded in 1136 (7) |
| ARBROATH | A former royal burgh on the east coast (pop about 25,000), with a ruined abbey (8) |
| ABBEY | Melrose ----- was founded in 1136 (5) |
| VEZELAY | This French village lies on a hill on the left bank of the Cure River. Its history is tied to its Benedictine abbey, founded in the 9th century. The abbey attracted pilgrims because the supposed remai |
| SELKIRK | Former royal burgh in the Borders (pop about 6,000), on the Ettrick Water (7) |
| TINTERN | Cistercian abbey founded in 1131 on the Welsh bank of the River Wye in Monmouthshire (7) |
| GODSTOW | In Oxfordshire, the site of a ruined abbey that housed an order of Benedictine nuns (7) |
| REIGATE | Small market town in Surrey (pop about 22,000), with a ruined medieval castle (7) |
| DUNS | Former county town in the Borders (pop about 2,500), created a burgh of barony in 1490 (4) |
| PEEBLES | Whoopee! Blessing came from town in the Borders (7) |
| NEWPORT | Welsh city with a ruined castle beside the River Usk (7) |
| COLDSTREAM | Small town in the Borders (pop about 2,000), a conservation area (10) |
| CORBETT | In Scotland, a hill between 2,500-3,000 feet in height (7) |
| HARLECH | North Wales town with a ruined castle |
| ABIDEBY | Accept papers found in ruined abbey |
| IBERIAN | Extinct language of southwestern Europe, used around 2,500 years ago |
| BURY | & 11D Cathedral town in Suffolk housing a ruined abbey (4,2,7) |
| HAILES | Location, near Winchcombe in the Cotswolds, of a Cistercian abbey founded in 1246 (6) |
| CLUNY | Town in central France, site of a Benedictine Abbey founded in 910 (5) |
| CHERTSEY | Town in the Borough of Runnymede, Surrey, that grew up round an abbey founded in 666 |
