| BRIDGWATER | Market town in Somerset near the site of the Battle of Sedgemoor (10) |
| MONMOUTHREBELLION | Insurrection that culminated in the Battle of Sedgemoor (8,9) |
| CHARD | Ancient borough in the county of Somerset, near the borders of both Devon and Dorset (5) |
| WESTONSUPERMARE | Raised in W Somerset, near busy resort town (6-5-4) |
| MALLET | Shepton, market town in Somerset which sits on the route of the Fosse Way Roman road (6) |
| YEOVIL | Traditional market town in Somerset (6) |
| EASTSUSSEX | County in the south of England, site of the Battle of Hastings in 1066 (4,6) |
| ABOUKIRBAY | Site of the Battle of the Nile in which Nelson defeated the French (7,3) |
| NECROPOLIS | An old burial site often near the site of an ancient city |
| GRETNA | Small town in the south-west (pop about 3,000), near the site of the Battle of Sark (1448) |
| ARMAGEDDON | Site of the battle between good and evil on the Day of Judgement (10) |
| INVERNESS | Highland city that lies near the site of the Battle of Culloden of 1746 (9) |
| WATSONWATT | Depicted in Castles in the Sky, physicist who developed a radar that was pivotal in the allied victory of the Battle of Britain (6-4) |
| FORTSUMTER | Site of the battle which started the American Civil War |
| MARKETBOSWORTH | Small town near the site of the decisive final battle of the Wars of the Roses (6,8) |
| TUNIS | It was a Roman city on the north coast of Africa, near the site of ancient Carthage. It was occupied by the Germans in 1942 and liberated by Allied troops in 1943. In The Tempest (act 2, scene 1), Seb |
| LEWES | County town of East Sussex near the site of a battle in which the younger Simon de Montfort defeated Henry III in May, 1264 (5) |
| LYMEREGIS | Nicknamed the "Pearl of Dorset", a coastal town near the site of fossilist Mary Anning's discovery of the first specimen of ichthyosaurus (4,5) |
| GENETUNNEY | Winner of The Battle of the Long Count. (4,6) |
| EVESHAM | With a heritage of market gardening, town in Worcestershire near the site of a battle that marked Simon de Montfort's defeat (7) |
