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