| GRAVESEND | Kent town on the south bank of the River Thames that has the world's oldest surviving cast iron pier, built in 1834 (9) |
| PIER | Gravesend has the world's oldest surviving cast iron ____ |
| CHERWELL | Tributary of the River Thames that flows through Oxford |
| KENNET | Tributary of the River Thames that flows through Marlborough, Hungerford and Newbury |
| HAERHPIN | What is one of the Romanised names of the major trade and communications city of central Manchuria, the capital of Heilongjiang, and located on the south bank of the Sungari River? (2-3-3) |
| DARTFORD | Town on the south bank of the River Thames noted for its crossing to Thurrock in Essex (8) |
| NORTHFLEET | Town in Kent on the south bank of the River Thames west of Gravesend (10) |
| MAZE | Botanical labyrinth such as that built in the multicursal or puzzle style for William and Mary in the Hampton Court garden which is the world's oldest surviving example (4) |
| RUNCORN | Industrial town on the south bank of the River Mersey (7) |
| CHATHAM | Kent town on the River Medway, the boyhood home of Charles Dickens (7) |
| TONBRIDGE | Kent town on the River Medway at which a castle was built by Richard Fitz Gilbert de Clare in the 11th century |
| WALTONLEDALE | Large village in Lancashire on the south bank of the River Ribble, opposite the city of Preston, adjacent to Bamber Bridge |
| AFGHANISTAN | Landlocked Asian country that has the world's oldest oil paintings in caves at Bamiyan (11) |
| MET | Location of the world's oldest surviving piano, with "the" |
| REDCAR | North Yorkshire town whose museum contains the Zetland, the world's oldest surviving lifeboat |
| ERSKINE | Town on the south bank of the Clyde (7) |
| CHERTSEY | Town in Runnymede, Surrey, on the south bank of the River Thames (8) |
| LONDONEYE | A large Ferris wheel located on the South bank of the River Thames in Westminster, erected in 1999 (6,3) |
| GATESHEAD | A large town in Tyne and Wear, on the south bank of the River Tyne (9) |
| ZETLAND | What is the name of the oldest surviving lifeboat in the world, currently housed in the museum in Redcar, England? (7) |
