| MELROSE | Borders town (pop about 2,000), with a ruined abbey founded in the 12th century (7) |
| 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 |
| LAUDER | Small Borders town (pop about 1,500), a royal burgh with a charter dated 1502 (6) |
| CARFIN | Village in Lanarkshire (pop 2,000), with a grotto which is a major pilgrimage site (6) |
| ARBROATH | A former royal burgh on the east coast (pop about 25,000), with a ruined abbey (8) |
| ALFORD | Small town in the north-east (pop about 2,000), the site of a Royalist victory in 1645 (6) |
| COLDSTREAM | Small town in the Borders (pop about 2,000), a conservation area (10) |
| TINTERN | Ruined abbey in Monmouthshire, founded in the 12th century (7) |
| GODSTOW | In Oxfordshire, the site of a ruined abbey that housed an order of Benedictine nuns (7) |
| LERWICK | Island town (pop about 7,500), a major ferry and fishing port (7) |
| REIGATE | Small market town in Surrey (pop about 22,000), with a ruined medieval castle (7) |
| AIRDRIE | Lanarkshire town (pop about 37,000), once a cotton mill centre (7) |
| NEWPORT | Welsh city with a ruined castle beside the River Usk (7) |
| HARLECH | North Wales town with a ruined castle |
| ROTHESAY | Island town (pop about 5,000), with a ruined 13th century castle (8) |
| ABIDEBY | Accept papers found in ruined abbey |
| BURY | & 11D Cathedral town in Suffolk housing a ruined abbey (4,2,7) |
| DUNS | Former county town (pop about 2,700) in the Borders (4) |
| 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) |
