| GREATTORRINGTON | Small market town in North Devon (5,10) |
| BARNSTAPLE | Market town in North Devon; birthplace of playwright John Gay |
| THIRSK | Small market town in North Yorkshire with a racecourse |
| BRIGG | Small market town in North Lincolnshire (5) |
| EARLYCLOSINGDAY | Wed in a small market town maybe |
| MASHAM | Small market town in North Yorkshire after which a breed of large sheep with a black-and-white face |
| TADCASTER | Small market town in North Yorkshire (pop 6,000), the site of a Roman settlement called Claria (9) |
| HATHERLEIGH | Small market town in West Devon that hosts an arts festival in July |
| SETTLE | Small market town in the Craven district of North Yorkshire |
| ASHBYDELAZOUCH | Small market town in Leicestershire (5-2-2-5) |
| BAKEWELL | Small market town in the Derbyshire Dales (8) |
| BRAMPTON | Small market town in Cumbria near Hadrian's Wall (8) |
| BIDEFORD | Town in North Devon whose 24-arch Long Bridge spans the River Torridge |
| REIGATE | Small market town in Surrey (pop about 22,000), with a ruined medieval castle (7) |
| LOURDES | Small market town in southern France (pop about 14,000), a major pilgrimage site (7) |
| ARUNDEL | Small market town in the south of England (pop about 3,5000), with a restored medieval castle (7) |
| LUDLOW | Small market town in the West Midlands of England (pop about 10,000) (6) |
| DISS | A small market town in Norfolk (pop about 8,000), near the boundary with Suffolk (4) |
| CLOVELLY | Fishing village in North Devon with a cobbled street immortalised in Rex Whistler's design for Wedgwood's Queen's ware (8) |
| ABBOTSHAM | Village near Bideford in North Devon (9) |
