| OLDSARUM | Site of the earliest settlement of Salisbury, on a hill about two miles north of the modern city |
| SARUM | Old ___, site of the earliest settlement of Salisbury and a notorious rotten borough (5) |
| EDMONDSHAM | On Monday, me and my dad stayed at a small hotel about two miles north of Verwood (10) |
| ECBATANA | Ancient city on the site of which stands the modern city of Hamadan, Iran (8) |
| THEBES | Ancient Egyptian city with ruins in the modern city of Luxor (6) |
| DEAL | Kent castle two miles north of Walmer (4) |
| AFRICA | A vast land mass thought to be the site of the earliest humans (6) |
| MONTECASSINO | Rocky hill about 130 km southeast of Rome, site of a 1944 battle in which its monastery was destroyed by Allied bombing |
| SUMER | Site of the earliest known civilisation, in the southern region of Babylonia in present-day Iraq (5) |
| BOSTONMARATHON | *Event where one passes Wellesley College's "Scream Tunnel" near the halfway mark and Heartbreak Hill about eight miles later |
| EGREMONT | Catlins Hill about to be moved into Taranaki? (8) |
| ISLAMABAD | The Faisal Mosque is the most famous building in this modern city which officially became the capital of Pakistan in 1967 |
| NOTTINGTON | I had my first tipple, a gin and tonic, around noon in the Turks Head about two miles from the centre of Weymouth (10) |
| ELLIS | Island two miles north-east of the Statue of Liberty (5) |
| OKEHAMPTON | Devon town two miles north-east of the granite site Meldon Quarry (10) |
| STEWE | We live in an end-of-terrace place on a small street about two miles from Pentewan (2,3) |
| KINGSKERSWELL | Kirk and Glen live with their son, Les, in a place on the waterfront about two miles from Dainton (13) |
| RUANLANIHORNE | They're building a non-rural hotel two miles north-east of this village near Trewarthenick (4,9) |
| SEOUL | Korea's Baekje kingdom was founded in 18BCE at Wirye-sung, the site of this major modern city |
| ASWAN | Which modern city corresponds to Syene, one of the places used by Eratosthenes to measure the earth? (5) |
