| Population | Hint | Town / Village | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4,260 | The namesake of a food invented by an earl | Sandwich | 80%
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| 2,460 | Many British prime ministers attend an elite college here | Eton | 79%
|
| 8,297 | Home to the UK's biggest music festival | Glastonbury | 78%
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| 5,839 | Known for a gorge and a cheese | Cheddar | 77%
|
| 14,958 | The Pirates of _______ | Penzance | 76%
|
| 300 | One might travel to this Scottish village from Land's End | John o' Groats | 68%
|
| 45,006 | Synonymous with Alan Turing and Enigma | Bletchley | 66%
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| 4,412 | Site of a 1988 plane bombing | Lockerbie | 65%
|
| 2,541 | Hosts the British Grand Prix | Silverstone | 61%
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| 981 | Home to one of the largest theme parks in the UK | Alton | 53%
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| 3,437 | Place to go for a runaway wedding | Gretna Green | 53%
|
| 35,852 | Famous annual horserace: the _____ Derby | Epsom | 51%
|
| 6,209 | Its racecourse hosts the Grand National | Aintree | 50%
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| 36,665 | County town in the West Midlands with a famous castle | Warwick | 48%
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| 4,826 | Town next to and named after England's largest lake | Windermere | 47%
|
| 431 | Norfolk village home to an official royal residence | Sandringham | 46%
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| 3,276 | Derbyshire town known for its pudding and tart | Bakewell | 45%
|
| 11,760 | Anglesey port where one can catch a ferry to Dublin | Holyhead | 44%
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| 6,597 | Where Robert the Bruce defeated the English in 1314 | Bannockburn | 41%
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| 44,898 | Margaret Thatcher came from this Lincolnshire town | Grantham | 41%
|
| 12,595 | Associated with Captain Cook and Dracula | Whitby | 41%
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| 4,483 | Site of a 1066 battle in which Harold defeated Norse invaders | Stamford Bridge | 40%
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| 14,370 | Isle of Wight town known for its regatta | Cowes | 39%
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| 3,093 | Village in a Shropshire gorge named for a first-of-its-kind bridge | Ironbridge | 39%
|
| 20,222 | Where British Army officers are trained | Sandhurst | 38%
|
| 7,390 | Capital of Orkney | Kirkwall | 35%
|
| 2,429 | The site of a 1966 colliery landslide disaster | Aberfan | 31%
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| 6,709 | Capital of Shetland | Lerwick | 30%
|
| 29,465 | The _____ March: a 1936 protest against unemployment and poverty | Jarrow | 29%
|
| 9,827 | Its castle saw the investiture of the Prince of Wales in 1969 | Caernarfon | 28%
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| 24,213 | Home to the UK's biggest container port | Felixstowe | 28%
|
| 8,530 | Yorkshire town whose phallic-looking name amuses many | Penistone | 28%
|
| 14,709 | North Wales resort town home to the Great Orme | Llandudno | 26%
|
| 517 | Home of 'martyrs' who were exiled to Australia for unionising | Tolpuddle | 24%
|
| 7,426 | The northernmost town on mainland Britain | Thurso | 23%
|
| 3,698 | Site of the last major battle to be fought in Britain, in 1746 | Culloden | 21%
|
| 14,120 | Fermanagh's largest town; site of the Remembrance Day bombing | Enniskillen | 21%
|
| 1,046 | The southernmost settlement on mainland Britain | Lizard | 21%
|
| 202 | A once thriving Suffolk port town; gradually swallowed by the sea | Dunwich | 5%
|
| 386 | Site of the fourth-largest city in Roman Britain | Wroxeter | 4%
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