| QUANTOCKHILLS | Area of Somerset which was England's first Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, designated in 1956 (8,5) |
| MALLET | Shepton, market town in Somerset which sits on the route of the Fosse Way Roman road (6) |
| EXMOOR | Area of Somerset no longer low, with river? |
| DRYDEN | Dramatist who wrote the Restoration comedy Marriage a la Mode and was England's first poet laureate (6) |
| GOWER | Peninsula in Wales including the Mumbles and Rhossili Bay that was designated as the UK's first Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in 1956 (5) |
| MENDIFHILLS | An area of outstanding natural beauty in Somerset, the location of Wookey Hole and Cheddar Gorge (6,5) |
| QUANTOCK | Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty west of Bridgwater, Somerset (8,5) |
| HILLS | Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty west of Bridgwater, Somerset (8,5) |
| NATIONALPARK | Race to mountain by boat in area of outstanding natural beauty (8,4) |
| DEVON | With two coastlines, county which contains the National Parks of Dartmoor and of Exmoor and five Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty including the Blackdown Hills (5) |
| STROUD | Market town and civil parish in Gloucestershire surrounded by the Cotswold Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty |
| CANNOCK | Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in S Staffordshire (7,5) |
| SERENGETI | G&T I mixed in tranquil area of outstanding natural beauty |
| DEDHAMVALE | An area of outstanding natural beauty on the Essex-Suffolk border on the River Stour (6,4) |
| THEMENDIPS | The western end of these Somerset hills were designated as being of 'Outstanding Natural Beauty' back in 1972 (3,7) |
| MATTHEWS | Stanley, first winner of the European Footballer of the Year award in 1956 (8) |
| MARRINER | (GKN) Neville ___, British conductor and violinist who founded the Academy of St Martin in the Fields in 1956 (8) |
| NORWICH | Which UNESCO City of Literature in the UK was designated in 2012? (7) |
| FIRTHOFLORN | English actor starts to observe first area of grass, we hear - and body of water (5,2,4) |
| LINDWALL | Ray ........, Australia Test cricketer who took 7-43 against India in Chennai in 1956 (8) |
