| GOWER | Welsh peninsula, the first area in the UK to be designated as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, in 1956 |
| FINISTERRE | Peninsula in western Spain, former name of what is now the FitzRoy sea area in the UK Shipping Forecast (10) |
| MENDIFHILLS | An area of outstanding natural beauty in Somerset, the location of Wookey Hole and Cheddar Gorge (6,5) |
| DEDHAMVALE | An area of outstanding natural beauty on the Essex-Suffolk border on the River Stour (6,4) |
| ZONES | Official districts that may be designated as residential or commercial |
| LEGAVROCHE | London restaurant that was the first in the UK to be awarded three Michelin stars (2,8) |
| BLASPHEMY | Crime for which Edinburgh student Thomas Aikenhead was the last person in the UK to be hanged (9) |
| BEDROOM | Not usually known as an area of boredom, although there could be nothing on! (7) |
| ROCKHEWNCHURCHES | The ____ near Lalibela in Ethiopia were one of the first 12 Unesco world heritage sites to be designated, in 1978 |
| TITLED | To be designated by an appellation is to be what (6) |
| BEDE | Only native of Great Britain to be named "Doctor of the Church" |
| KAREN | And 12ac Glaswegian who was the first woman in Britain to be a train driver (5,8) |
| SHERINGHAM | Norfolk seaside town that was the first place in Britain to be attacked by Zeppelins (10) |
| SOBEREST | Most fit to be designated driver |
| NEWTO | Just arrived in, as an area |
| ROPES | Secures, as an area, with "off" |
| QUANTOCKHILLS | Area in the South West which was England's first Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, designated in 1956 (8,5) |
| DEVON | With two coastlines, county which contains the National Parks of Dartmoor and of Exmoor and five Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty including the Blackdown Hills (5) |
| STROUD | Market town and civil parish in Gloucestershire surrounded by the Cotswold Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty |
| NATIONALPARK | Race to mountain by boat in area of outstanding natural beauty (8,4) |
