| TUNBRIDGEWELLS | Kent town noted for its Georgian colonnade The Pantiles and granted a 'Royal' prefix in 1909 (9,5) |
| SOCIETY | Royal -; founded by Robert Boyle, Sir Christopher Wren and others and granted a royal charter by Charles II, the UK's national science academy (7) |
| NOCANDO | I am unable to perform coming from colonnade the Parisian leaves (2,3,2) |
| PLAINEST | Least decorative arrangement of pantiles |
| EASTINDIA | - - Company; cartel granted a royal charter by Elizabeth I in 1600 (4,5) |
| WISBECH | Cambridgeshire town, noted for its Georgian architecture, known as the Capital of The Fens (7) |
| TRUSTY | Convict considered safe and granted special privileges (6) |
| BATH | City in the historic county of Somerset noted for its Georgian buildings (4) |
| HOLT | Market town in north Norfolk noted for its Georgian buildings (4) |
| BISHOPSCASTLE | Shropshire town noted for its alternative community of artists, writers and craftspeople, and home to the Three Tuns, the UK's oldest brewery (7,6) |
| NUNEATON | Town noted for its connections to George Eliot, who was born locally on the Arbury Estate and drew inspiration from the area for her novels (8) |
| BLACKPOOL | Lancashire seaside town noted for its Tower and Ballroom that opened in 1894 (9) |
| ALLOTMENT | Word for an act of apportionment; the portion granted; a parcel of a field historically assigned to a tenant cottager to labour for him/herself; or, today, a plot rented to grow one's own flowers, fru |
| BAYEUX | Town noted for its eponymous 230ft-long cloth embroidered with scenes and tituli describing events leading up to the Norman Conquest (6) |
| ROYAL | The - Ballet; granted a charter by the Queen in 1956, a dance company in Covent Garden whose founderchoreographer was Frederick Ashton (5) |
| AGEN | Up north, say, a town noted for its prunes (4) |
| ASCOT | English town noted for its Royal horse race meetings (5) |
| DELFT | Dutch town noted for its blue-and-white pottery (5) |
| BRECON | Welsh town noted for its annual jazz festival begun in 1984 (6) |
| BRUTON | Somerset market town noted for its arts and crafts scene (6) |
