| OTTERBURN | Northumberland town, site of a 1388 battle (9) |
| ALDERSHOT | Hampshire town, site of a large military camp (9) |
| SHEERNESS | Isle of Sheppey town, site of a former naval dockyard |
| ASHINGTON | Northumberland town, formerly a coal-mining centre (9) |
| VICKSBURG | Mississippi town, site a 1863 Civil War battle (9) |
| ASCOLI | - Piceno, Italian town, site of a massacre of all its Roman citizens in the Social War of 90 B.C. (6) |
| ARNHEM | Dutch town, site of a 1944 WWII battle (6) |
| PRESTONPANS | East Lothian mining town, site of a 1745 battle (11) |
| CASSINO | Italian town, site of a World War II battle in 1944 (7) |
| MILDENHALL | Suffolk town, site of a major hoard of fourth-century Roman silver tableware discovered in 1942 |
| LODI | Italian town, site of a 1796 Napoleon victory |
| DIDCOT | Oxfordshire town, site of a large natural gas power station (6) |
| CIRENCESTER | Gloucestershire town, site of a Roman amphitheatre |
| ASWAN | Egyptian town, site of a dam (5) |
| MONMOUTH | Welsh town, site of a castle where Henry V was born in 1386 (8) |
| STOWONTHEWOLD | Gloucestershire town, site of the final battle of the first English Civil War (4-2-3-4) |
| IVES | St -; Cornish fishing town, site of one of the Tate galleries (4) |
| RUSSELL | Bay of Islands town, site of the first permanent European settlement (7) |
| MEISSEN | German town site of the first fine-quality porcelain to be produced outside of China? (7) |
| SKEGNESS | North Sea coast town, site of the first Butlin's holiday camp and birthplace of footballer Ray Clemence (8) |
