Withington Pub Quiz League - ACQ - Linkit - 28/01/13

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28/01/2013	Roughly Where?	Each of the 15 questions provides an extract from the Rough Guide description of a UK village, town or city accompanied by a picture of the place concerned. The map below is marked with each location featured. Identify the name of each place described and then choose the location on the map using the letter tags shown.	Questions with Answers
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		1.	“This town straddles the River Ouse as it carves a gap through the South Downs on its final stretch to the sea. Its core remains replete with crooked older dwellings, narrow lanes – or ‘twittens’ – and Georgian houses. With numerous traces of its long history still visible, some of England’s most appealing chalkland is on its doorstep and the Bloomsbury Group’s country home at Charleston is close by.”
2.	“This attractive market town, eleven miles north of Harrogate, is centred upon its small cathedral, which can trace its ancestry back to its foundation by St Wilfrid in 672. Three restored buildings – prison, courthouse and workhouse – show a different side of the local heritage, under the banner of the Yorkshire Law and Order Museums. Just four miles away lies Fountains Abbey.”	3.	“Spreading north from the banks of the River Nene, this is a workaday town whose modern appearance largely belies its ancient past. Throughout the Middle Ages, it was one of central England’s most important towns. During the Industrial Revolution, it swarmed with boot- and shoemakers, whose products shod almost everyone in the British Empire.”
4.	“If you visit anywhere in Essex, it should be this town, a busy sort of place with a castle, a university and an army base, fifty miles or so northeast of London. It prides itself on being England’s oldest town. Today, It makes a potential base for explorations of the surrounding countryside – particularly the Stour valley towns of Constable country, within easy reach a few miles to the north.”	5.	“Straddling the River Forth a few miles upstream from the estuary at Kincardine, this city appears, at first glance, like a smaller version of Edinburgh. With its crag-top castle, steep, cobbled streets and mixed community of locals, students and tourists, it’s an appealing place.”
6.	“Fifteen miles east of Sherborne on the A30, this town perches on a spur of lumpy hills, with severe gradients on three sides of the town. On a clear day, views from the town are terrific – one of the best vantage points is Gold Hill, quaint, cobbled and very steep. At its crest, the local history museum displays items ranging from locally made buttons, for which the area was once renowned, to a mummified cat.”	7.	“The Romans chose this spot for a garrison to guard the River Severn, while in Saxon and Norman times the Severn developed into one of the busiest trade routes in Europe. The city became a major religious centre too, but from the fifteenth century onwards a combination of fire, plague, civil war and increasing competition from rival towns sent it into a decline from which it never recovered.”
8.	“This delightful spot in the southwest corner of Lincolnshire, is a handsome little limestone town of yellow-grey seventeenth- and eighteenth-century buildings edging narrow streets that slope up from the River Welland. The town’s salad days were as a centre of the medieval wool and cloth trade. It was also the home of William Cecil, Elizabeth I’s chief minister, who built his splendid mansion, Burghley House, close by.”	9.	“Several miles inland from Morecambe Bay, this village is something of an upmarket getaway, with its Michelin-starred restaurant-with-rooms, winding country lanes and cobbled market square brimming with inns and antique shops. Here you can buy handmade dolls’ houses and embroidered footstools, while in the Village Shop on the square they sell the finest sticky-toffee pudding known to humanity.”
10.	“The decline of manufacturing wasn’t kind to this town, but regeneration is very much the buzzword today. The city’s heyday was in the 1800s, when its train and harbour links made it a major centre for shipbuilding, whaling and the manufacture of jute, the world’s most important vegetable fibre after cotton. Along with jam and journalism this has all but disappeared.”	11.	“With its tangle of old streets, cobbled lanes and elegant Georgian and Victorian terraces, nine miles north of Hull, this is the very picture of a traditional market town. More than 350 of its buildings are listed, and though you could see its first-rank offerings in a morning, it makes an appealing place to stay.”
12.	“Three rivers – the Yare, Waveney and Bure – meander across the flatlands to the east of Norwich, converging on Breydon Water before flowing into the sea at this place. In places these rivers swell into wide expanses of water known as ‘broads’, which for years were thought to be natural lakes.”	13.	“This old-fashioned resort, six miles southeast of Sandwich, was the site of Julius Caesar’s first successful landfall in Britain in 55 BC. Today it’s a pleasant if unexciting spot, with a shingle beach backed by a jumble of Georgian townhouses, and a striking 1950s concrete pier that gives great views back across the town. Two seafront castles, built during the reign of King Henry VIII, are the town’s biggest draw.”
14.	“This handsome city is best known for its beautiful Norman cathedral – there’s a tremendous view of it as you approach the city by train from the south – and its flourishing university dating from the 14th century. Together, these form a little island of privilege in what’s otherwise a moderately sized, working-class city.”	15.	“On a natural promontory of great strategic importance, this beguilingly old-fashioned place is everything a seaside resort should be. Narrow streets wind down from the medieval centre to the harbour past miniature gardens fashioned to face the afternoon sun, and steps lead down the steeper slopes to dockside arches where fishmongers sell the morning’s catch. It was first mentioned in a ninth-century bardic poem.”