| SITTINGBOURNE | Kent town, once a noted stopping-place for pilgrims to Canterbury (13) |
| ABERDARON | Village on the western tip of the Llyn peninsula, the last stopping place for pilgrims to Ynys Enlli (9) |
| MECCA | Host guards city, a place for pilgrims |
| LOURDES | See location of religious significance — some French place for pilgrims |
| MERTHYRTYDFIL | Town once a centre of South Wales coal mining (7,6) |
| SCARF | From Old French for "pilgrim's pouch or scrip", a word for an official or soldier's sash for carrying things originally, later for a length/square of cloth for the neck or shoulders (5) |
| REDRUTH | Cornish town once a hub of the copper-mining industry |
| NORTHAMPTON | County town once a centre of the footwear industry |
| STHELENS | Merseyside town once a centre of the glass industry |
| FLO | She's "in town" once a month |
| YPRES | Belgian town, once a prosperous textile centre, site of major battles of the First World War (5) |
| LAYBY | Stopping place for vehicles beside a road (3-2) |
| PORTOFCALL | Stopping place for a boat (4,2,4) |
| ETHELBERT | King of Kent when Augustine came to Canterbury |
| ELY | The French put up close to Canterbury, a cathedral city |
| STATION | Stopping place for a train (7) |
| AREA | Rest ___ (stopping place for a driver) |
| STANCE | Word, from "stopping place", for one's bearing, carriage, position or posture, known to yogis as asana (6) |
| STAGECRAFT | Dramatic ability in arranging stopping place for boats? (10) |
| FATIMA | Fellow writer's at a nursing centre for pilgrims (6) |
