| GOWER | Peninsula in Wales including the Mumbles and Rhossili Bay that was designated as the UK's first Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in 1956 (5) |
| STEVENAGE | Community designated as the UK's first New Town in 1946 (9) |
| RHUM | Old spelling of the Inner Hebridean Small Isle that was designated as a national nature reserve in 1 |
| THOMAS | Poet and creator of the fictional fishing village "Llareggub", who, in Fern Hill, reflects on his childhood visits to his aunt's farm in Wales, including its apple boughs, foxes, nightjars, owls and p |
| NORTHYORKMOORS | Upland area, in which Rievaulx Abbey is located, that was designated a National Park in 1952 (5,4,5) |
| CASTLES | General word for fortresses such as those built under Edward I's orders during his conquest of Wales including Beaumaris, Caemarfon, Conwy and Harlech (7) |
| LILY | Plant ... in Rhossili, Lynmouth (4) |
| GOWERWAY | LDP from Rhossili inland to a ruined castle - wary, we go around! (5,3) |
| EMU | Foreign bird, farmed for eggs, meat, feathers etc . ... in the Mumbles (3) |
| HEM | Border in the Mumbles |
| NEWLANARK | This site in Scotland was founded in 1785 as a cotton-spinning centre by David Dale with the support of Sir Richard Arkwright, inventor of the water frame. It was designated as a UNESCO World Heritage |
| QUANTOCKHILLS | Area in the South West which was England's first Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, designated in 1956 (8,5) |
| ACADIANS | The World Heritage site designated as the Landscape of Grand Pre, in Nova Scotia, celebrates the heritage of these French settlers of North America, some of whom became the Cajuns of southern Louisian |
| BARDSEY | ____ Island, one near the Llyn Peninsula in Wales known as the Island Of 20,000 Saints (7) |
| RHOSSILI | _____ Bay, inlet at the western end of the Gower Peninsula in Wales (8) |
| COAST | ___" to ___"; long-distance walk between St Bees and Robin Hoods Bay that was devised by Alfred Wainwright (5) |
| ALCATRAZ | Island in San Francisco Bay that was a federal prison until 1963 (8) |
| SWANSEA | Second-largest city in Wales after Cardiff, site of the Gower Peninsula and Mumbles beach (7) |
| AUSTIN | City designated as the permanent capital of the Republic of Texas in 1839 (6) |
| EPSOM | Surrey town in which the UK's first automatic telephone exchange was installed in 1912 (5) |
