| Letter | Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| E | Manchester-adjacent market town with a cakey namesake | Eccles | 80%
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| A | Largest town in Angus; famous for its 12th Century ruined abbey. | Arbroath | 60%
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| F | Hampshire town with a rich aviation history and the final resting place of Napoleon III and his wife. | Farnborough | 60%
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| N | Seaside town with a Geordie namesake sat at the foot of Slieve Donard. | Newcastle | 60%
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| M | Historically a huge producer of iron, you might watch Smoggies entertain the Riverside in this Teeside town. | Middlesbrough | 50%
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| T | Pembrokeshire seaside town with colourful houses decorating the harbourfront and ringed by 13th Century stone walls. | Tenby | 50%
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| V | Isle of Wight town known for its Victorian seaside appeal. | Ventnor | 50%
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| C | Midlands town where the locals have a peculiarly Scottish twang to their accent. | Corby | 40%
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| H | Not to be confused with its glitzy Californian namesake, this County Down town hosts the Ulster Museum. | Holywood | 40%
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| K | Following the River Nidd, this North Yorkshire town is known for its castle and looming viaduct. | Knaresborough | 40%
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| O | Straddling the English-Welsh border, this town was named for King Oswald of Northumbria, killed at the Battle of Maserfield in 642. | Oswestry | 40%
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| Y | Tees Valley town with a celebrated Georgian high street and a locally renowned annual funfair. | Yarm | 40%
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| D | The capital of the Yorkshire Wolds received its market charter in 1251. | Driffield | 30%
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| G | Sat on the banks of the Clyde, this town is the birthplace of the inventor of the steam engine. | Greenock | 30%
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| P | This Denbighshire seaside tourist hub sits at the top of Offa’s Dyke Path. | Prestatyn | 30%
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| R | Former coal mining town of Staffordshire that suffered significant unemployment when Lea Hall Colliery shut down in 1990. | Rugeley | 30%
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| B | Kentish town favoured by Charles Dickens on holiday. | Broadstairs | 20%
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| J | This seaside location is widely touted as the most deprived town in England. | Jaywick | 20%
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| S | One of the most bombed towns of The Troubles relative to its size, the river Mourne flows through it. | Strabane | 20%
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| U | Charming East Sussex market town close to AA Milne’s Ashdown Forest and birthplace of hip-hop artist Rag’N’Bone Man. | Uckfield | 20%
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| W | This West Midlands town became known as the leather capital of Britain during the Industrial Revolution. | Walsall | 20%
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| 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 | 10%
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| L | Formerly known as ‘Tinopolis’ due to its manufacturing history, this town has two sets of double consonants. | Llanelli | 10%
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| 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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