| HARTLEPOOL | Town in County Durham, England, on the North Sea south-east of Durham |
| STOCKTON | Market town in County Durham that was the destination of the first steam locomotive journey on a public railway, in 1825 (8) |
| SPENNYMOOR | Industrial town in County Durham north-east of Bishop Auckland (10) |
| ESSEX | County of South East England, on the North Sea and the Thames estuary (5) |
| ESCOMB | Village in County Durham on the River Wear, about 1.5 miles west of Bishop Auckland, that has one of the oldest Anglo-Saxon churches in England |
| PETERLEE | Town in County Durham founded in 1948 under the New Towns Act (8) |
| NORFOLK | A county of East England, on the North Sea and The Wash (7) |
| LINCOLNSHIRE | County of East England, on the North Sea and the Wash (12) |
| COLCHIS | Ancient country on the Black Sea south of the Caucasus that was the land of the Golden Fleece in Gre |
| CONSETT | Town in County Durham whose steelworks closed in 1980 (7) |
| SCARBOROUGH | Fishing port and resort in North Yorkshire, England, on the North Sea (11) |
| BARONESS | Tanni Grey-Thompson holds the title of --------of Eaglescliffe in the County of Durham (8) |
| BISHOPAUCKLAND | Market town in County Durham |
| AUCKLAND | Bishop --, town in County Durham (8) |
| CRETE | Largest island of Greece, in the Mediterranean Sea south of the Aegean Islands (5) |
| LOLLAND | Fourth-largest island of Denmark, in the Baltic Sea south of Zealand and west of Falster (7) |
| MALTA | Island country in the Mediterranean Sea south of Italy and north of Libya (5) |
| BEAMISH | Open-air museum near the town of Stanley in County Durham (7) |
| CELTIC | Sea south of Ireland, separated from the Irish Sea by the St George's Channel |
| PECHORA | ? Sea, southeastern extension of the Barents Sea south of Novaya Zemlya |
