Here are the answers to the English Place Names Quiz.

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99 correct answers.

 

  1. A highlander in Berks                                                                                    Ascot
  2. A place over the river in Essex                                                                      Abridge
  3. All Hants know that this captain went to Eton, even the crocodile knew it         Hook
  4. At least two set holes in Somerset                                                                 Wells
  5. Bar billiards in Dorset                                                                                  Poole
  6. Better tell the water authority about this place in Staffs                               Leek
  7. Between a lane and a road in Somerset                                                           Street
  8. Cheese it you Somerset lot                                                                            Cheddar
  9. Cheshire shipmates                                                                                        Crewe
  10. Colloquial Cornish name for pandemonium                                                        Helston
  11. Come comfortably to res in North Yorks                                                        Settle
  12. Comfort stop in Cornwall                                                                               Looe
  13. Count Dracula landed here in North Yorks                                                      Whitby
  14. Crossword setters say 'Inter' but it is simpler in Greater Manchester             Bury
  15. Did Gilbert Keith come from Staffs?                                                             Chesterton
  16. This male duck is not flying high in Derbyshire                                               Drakelow
  17. Dissatisified with things in Greater manchester they are ……….                        Altrincham
  18. Do nuns still wear these in Devon?                                                                 Whimple
  19. Does nobody walk here on the Isle of Wight?                                                 Ryde
  20. Don't prick yourself in the South Yorks rose garden                                       Thorne
  21. Elizabeth had one every year but the Avon lady has them more often                Bath
  22. Even in Surrey whimberry juice does this                                                       Staines
  23. In Cleveland, Ferrari is but Maclaren Mercedes isn't                                     Redcar
  24. First of the 3 R's in Berkshire                                                                      Reading
  25. Five cinque ports were not enough so in East Sussex they added
     this to import American Whisky                                                                  
    Rye
  26. Getting better in London W5                                                                         Ealing
  27. Greater manchester cake place                                                                      Eccles
  28. Greater Manchester flies go here in winter                                                    Hyde
  29. Hampshire panto 'Oh yes you have' 'Oh no I ……'                                            Havant
  30. How a Man of Kent but not a Kentish man might pine (or fir)                           Deal
  31. How do people in Somerset send things overseas                                             Shipham
  32. Humberside sounds a good place for the body of a ship                                   Hull
  33. If you include the 'Royal Oak' there would be eight in Kent                            Sevenoaks
  34. In Essex, this is the other 007                                                                      Basildon
  35. In Greater Manchester they drink sherry but they ……………                            Stockport
  36. In Hampshire Dick Turpin said ……. your money                                              Andover
  37. In Lancs some stayed away but ………….                                                           Morecambe
  38. In Manchester if they can't win honestly they ……..                                         Cheetham
  39. In NW London the stage manager says 'Don't stop'                                         Acton
  40. In Somerset it is used in salads but he won a VC at Rorke's Drift                    Chard
  41. In Somerset they mock away                                                                         Taunton
  42. In the North West they used a one-wheeled vehicle and went from                   Lancs
     to Cumbria                                                                                                  Barrow
  43. In the West Midlands they don't always tell the truth                                    Lye
  44. Is this how they cheer the Dutch in Lancashire?                                              Upholland
  45. In Wiltshire one contrives                                                                            Devizes
  46. In Wiltshire they do this to potatoes                                                             Chippenham
  47. It keeps the window panes apart in Cornwall                                                  Mullion
  48. It might be the biggest antelope in Africa but this one is in West Yorks           Elland
  49. It's the nearest they get to white horses in Essex                                           Grays
  50. Lancashire's own admiral                                                                               Nelson
  51. Mick the Miller won this twice running now it is a city                                    Derby
  52. Mickey stays here when he is in Cornwall                                                       Mousehole
  53. More cakes (or are they puddings?) in Derbyshire                                          Bakewell
  54. More ships from Humberside - two masted (or is it a jail?)                              Brigg
  55. More ships, lots of them in Hants                                                                   Fleet
  56. Not in Huddersfield but in Lancs they keep icecream in them                           Colne
  57. On Humberside they tell of Ian Botham and Kevin Keegan playing here              Scunthorpe
  58. On the A40 just outside central London is a fairy dell                                    Perivale
  59. Only a lake in Cheshire                                                                                 Mere
  60. Place of despond in Berks                                                                              Slough
  61. Robin Hood's minstrel came from Northumberland                                          Allendale
  62. Rock but not pop in Staffs                                                                            Stone
  63. Sounds like the sheltered side in Greater Manchester                                     Leigh
  64. Surgeons' favourite pastime in West Sussex                                                   Lancing
  65. The claythrowers' pub in Herts                                                                     Potters Bar
  66. The Geordies feel carefree here in Northumberland                                       Blyth
  67. The otter has come back to Norfolk it seems                                                  Holt
  68. The place for charcoal in Staffs                                                                    Burntwood
  69. The professional have 13 players but in Warwickshire they probably
     prefer 15 a side                                                                                         
    Rugby
  70. There is a gruesome fiend in Humberside which can't spell                               Goole
  71. There might not be much action but there is a lot of this in Staffs                   Talke
  72. There's one in Gwent and one on the Isle of Wight so why put
     one in
    Shropshire?                                                                                       Newport
  73. They don’t' only drink cider in Devon                                                             Beer
  74. They don't import milk here on the Isle of Wight                                           Cowes
  75. They moved it from Essex to Greater London, no wonder the dogs howl              Barking
  76. They shoot you with these in Hants                                                                Winchester
  77. This, as they say in Norfolk, is a hell of a place to live                                    Diss
  78. Unlike Harrods they have one all the year round in
     Greater Manchester                                                                                   
    Sale
  79. Urge them on in Surrey                                                                                 Egham
  80. Walk on through February in Cambridgeshire                                                 March
  81. Was Hamlet thinking of Lincs when he said 'that unknown country
     from whose …… no traveller returns'?                                                            Bourne
  82. Was it in Bucks that Alfred did this to the cakes?                                          Burnham
  83. Was the inventor of meccano a Lancashire lad?                                               Hornby
  84. Was the original platinum blonde an Essex girl?                                              Harlow
  85. What they do to spuds in North Yorks                                                           Masham
  86. What Northumbrians do to bewitch their enemies                                           Wall
  87. What sailors do to pick up girls in Kent                                                          Chatham
  88. What the kindly light does in West Yorks                                                      Leeds
  89. What they do in west Yorkshire when things freeze                                        Meltham
  90. We saw what they do to spuds in Yorks but in Berks they …….                         Cookham
  91. When a ship stopped in East Sussex it ….. to                                                   Hove
  92. When Sherlock and Mycroft came to Cheshire did they worship here?              Holmes Chapel
  93. Where a Kentish man but not a Man of Kent puts his headstone                        Gravesend
  94. Where disappointed 'A' level students go for a transplant in Essex                  Braintree
  95. Where should a dromedary cross water in Cornwall?                                       Camelford
  96. Where to go for a punch-up in East Sussex                                                     Battle
  97. Why are they scratching in Herts?                                                                Hitchin
  98. Would a Cheshire man give an arm or a leg for this place?                               Lymm

100.WS Churchill had a distressing time here in Greater London                       Harrow