| PENRITH | Market town in Cumbria housing a ruined medieval castle |
| REIGATE | Small market town in Surrey (pop about 22,000), with a ruined medieval castle (7) |
| GOODRICH | Ruined medieval castle in Herefordshire (8) |
| DONNINGTON | Ruined medieval castle north of Newbury (10) |
| CROWLAND | Town in the South Holland district of Lincolnshire with a ruined medieval abbey and a 14th-century three-sided bridge |
| ALSTON | Market town in Cumbria lying high in the North Pennines (6) |
| EGREMONT | Market town in Cumbria (8) |
| KENDAL | Market town in Cumbria on the River Kent |
| BRAMPTON | Small market town in Cumbria near Hadrian's Wall (8) |
| COCKERMOUTH | Market town in Cumbria, the birthplace of William Wordsworth |
| TINTERN | Dye specialist finally shown Welsh village with a ruined medieval abbey (7) |
| DENBIGH | Market town in the Vale of Clwyd, N Wales housing a ruined castle |
| THURSO | Town in Highland, NE Scotland housing a ruined 19th-century castle (6) |
| NEATH | Town in Wales northeast of Swansea housing a ruined castle |
| FLINT | Town in NE Wales on the Dee estuary housing a ruined castle (5) |
| BURY | Cathedral town in Suffolk housing a ruined abbey (4,9) |
| ELGIN | Town in Moray, Scotland. on the River Lossie housing a ruined cathedral (5) |
| DUNNOTTAR | - Castle, ruined medieval fortress in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, south of Stonehaven (9) |
| BOWER | Literary word for a country cottage or summer house; a shady place in a garden or wood; or, a lady's private boudoir in a medieval castle (5) |
| ANI | Ruined medieval Armenian city, now in Turkey (3) |
