| LUDLOW | Market town in Shropshire with a ruined castle overlooking the River Teme (6) |
| CLUN | Small town of south-west Shropshire with a ruined castle (4) |
| TOLEDO | The 'City of Three Cultures' overlooking the river Tagus which was capital of Spain until 1560 (6) |
| HARLECH | North Wales town noted for its ruined castle overlooking Cardigan Bay (7) |
| BEAULY | Small town in the Highlands (pop about 1,500), with a ruined priory established around 1230 (6) |
| DUDLEY | West Midlands town with a zoo and a ruined castle (6) |
| SEVERN | English river whose tributaries include the Teme and the Tern (6) |
| KENILWORTH | Market town in Warwickshire with a ruined castle immortalised in a novel by Sir Walter Scott (10) |
| NEWPORT | Welsh city with a ruined castle beside the River Usk (7) |
| HELMSLEY | Market town with a ruined castle 24 miles north of York (8) |
| TINTAGEL | Cornish village with a ruined castle identified by Geoffrey of Monmouth as the legendary birthplace of the "once and future king" Arthur (8) |
| BALLANTRAE | Fishing village in Ayrshire with a ruined castle (c 1450) (10) |
| COWIE | Historic fishing village in Kincardineshire, now subsumed into Stonehaven, with a ruined castle |
| OSWESTRY | The largest market town in Shropshire, close to the Welsh border |
| REIGATE | Small market town in Surrey (pop about 22,000), with a ruined medieval castle (7) |
| MELROSE | Small town in the Borders (pop 2,500), with a ruined abbey founded in 1136 (7) |
| TELFORD | A town in Shropshire, designated a new town in 1963 (7) |
| COALPORT | Town in Shropshire on the River Severn associated with a type of porcelain |
| DENBIGH | Market town in the Vale of Clwyd, N Wales housing a ruined castle (7) |
| CROWLAND | Town in the South Holland district of Lincolnshire with a ruined medieval abbey and a 14th-century three-sided bridge |
