UK Towns A-Z - Statistics

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Letter	Hint	Answer	% Correct
E	Manchester-adjacent market town with a cakey namesake	Eccles	82%
N	Seaside town with a Geordie namesake sat at the foot of Slieve Donard.	Newcastle	64%
A	Largest town in Angus; famous for its 12th Century ruined abbey.	Arbroath	55%
F	Hampshire town with a rich aviation history and the final resting place of Napoleon III and his wife.	Farnborough	55%
M	Historically a huge producer of iron, you might watch Smoggies entertain the Riverside in this Teeside town.	Middlesbrough	55%
T	Pembrokeshire seaside town with colourful houses decorating the harbourfront and ringed by 13th Century stone walls.	Tenby	55%
V	Isle of Wight town known for its Victorian seaside appeal.	Ventnor	55%
K	Following the River Nidd, this North Yorkshire town is known for its castle and looming viaduct.	Knaresborough	45%
C	Midlands town where the locals have a peculiarly Scottish twang to their accent.	Corby	36%
H	Not to be confused with its glitzy Californian namesake, this County Down town hosts the Ulster Museum.	Holywood	36%
O	Straddling the English-Welsh border, this town was named for King Oswald of Northumbria, killed at the Battle of Maserfield in 642.	Oswestry	36%
Y	Tees Valley town with a celebrated Georgian high street and a locally renowned annual funfair.	Yarm	36%
D	The capital of the Yorkshire Wolds received its market charter in 1251.	Driffield	27%
G	Sat on the banks of the Clyde, this town is the birthplace of the inventor of the steam engine.	Greenock	27%
P	This Denbighshire seaside tourist hub sits at the top of Offa’s Dyke Path.	Prestatyn	27%
R	Former coal mining town of Staffordshire that suffered significant unemployment when Lea Hall Colliery shut down in 1990.	Rugeley	27%
W	This West Midlands town became known as the leather capital of Britain during the Industrial Revolution.	Walsall	27%
B	Kentish town favoured by Charles Dickens on holiday.	Broadstairs	18%
J	This seaside location is widely touted as the most deprived town in England.	Jaywick	18%
S	One of the most bombed towns of The Troubles relative to its size, the river Mourne flows through it.	Strabane	18%
U	Charming East Sussex market town close to AA Milne’s Ashdown Forest and birthplace of hip-hop artist Rag’N’Bone Man.	Uckfield	18%
I	This port town in the Highlands was the site of the explosion of the HMS Natal in 1915 which tragically claimed over 300 lives.	Invergordon	9%
L	Formerly known as ‘Tinopolis’ due to its manufacturing history, this town has two sets of double consonants.	Llanelli	9%
Q	Seafaring town on the Isle of Sheppey with a rich naval history, wedged between the Thames and the Medway.	Queensborough	0%

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