| PAULREVEREHOUSE | Historic site that was the starting point of a noted 1775 ride |
| EDINBURGHCASTLE | Fortified site that was the birthplace of James I of England and James VI of Scotland in 1566 (9,6) |
| REVERE | Paul ___ (American silversmith famous for his midnight 1775 ride) |
| EBAY | Shopping site that was once known as AuctionWeb |
| SELMA | Alabama city that was the starting point of a 1965 Civil Rights march |
| XIAN | Chinese city that was the starting point of the Silk Road |
| ALDERMASTON | Village in Berkshire that was the starting point of marches organised by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament |
| TABARD | The ... was an inn in Southwark that was the starting point for the pilgrimage in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (6) |
| CHAMONIX | Short name for the resort on the north side of Mont Blanc that hosted the first Winter Olympics and is the starting point of the Haute Route ski touring trail ending in Zermatt (8) |
| SOURCE | Spring at the starting point of a stream |
| TROY | Start of a word ladder (and the starting point of the journey) |
| EDALE | Village in the High Peak of Derbyshire; the starting point of the Pennine Way (5) |
| BRAEMAR | Scottish village, the starting point of the 1715 Jacobite rising (7) |
| ERA | From the Latin for "counters for calculation" or "brass/copper money", a division of geochronological or chronological time; a starting point of a new age; or, an important date (3) |
| LIEGE | Belgian city, the starting point of the gruelling Marathon de la Route classic rally, first run in 1931 (5) |
| KALAMAZOO | Starting point of a train trip to Timbuktu, in song |
| LEDO | Town in Assam, India, and starting point of a famous road begun in 1942 |
| BARRIER | Starting point of a horse race (7) |
| EDEN | Starting point of a long race? |
| SEEDCORN | Starting point of a cob production session |
