| HARWICH | Port town in Essex, departure point for ferries to Holland (7) |
| TILBURY | Port town in Essex in which Queen Elizabeth I addressed her troops in 1588, giving a famous speech (7) |
| MILAZZO | Town on the north coast of Sicily whose port is a departure point for ferries to the Aeolian Islands and Naples (7) |
| NINEAND | Fictional departure point for those going to Hogwarts? (8,4,3,5,8) |
| IPSWICH | Port town in Suffolk, home to Thomas Gainsborough for some 15 years, where he painted subjects from butterfly chases and local gentry to parks, ponds, streams and weirs (7) |
| GRIMSBY | Port town in northeast Lincolnshire noted once for its large fishing fleet (7) |
| ANDOVER | Article on port, town in Hampshire (7) |
| WINDSOR | Snakes inside of port town in Ontario (7) |
| EXMOUTH | Port town in Devon that was the birthplace of Ed 'Stewpot' Stewart (7) |
| MINORCA | Island with ferries to Ibiza |
| SENEGAL | West African country that was once an infamous slave trade departure point |
| KYLE | -- of Lochalsh, Scottish village which is chief port for ferries to Skye and the Outer Hebrides (4) |
| WHARF | A jetty for ferries to dock at (5) |
| PLATFORM | Fictional departure point for those going to Hogwarts? (8,4,3,5,8) |
| THREEQUARTERS | Fictional departure point for those going to Hogwarts? (8,4,3,5,8) |
| EUSTON | Departure point for Sir Micheal Palin on his journey to Kyle of Lochalsh (6) |
| ILFRACOMBE | North Devon resort and main departure point for Lundy |
| LISBON | Departure point for explorer Vasco da Gama |
| GRAYSELEGY | It was written in a churchyard in town in Essex before, say, in city in Cambridgeshire (5,5) |
| EAST | Departure point for the Magi (4) |
