| GRASMERE | Village in which Wordsworth's Dove Cottage is located |
| CHALFONT | ___ St Giles, Buckinghamshire village in which Milton's Cottage is a tourist attraction (8) |
| RYDAL | Village in the Lake District, location of William Wordsworth's family home after Dove Cottage, where Dora's Field was planted and he wrote a final version of "Daffodils" (5) |
| DEQUINCEY | Critic and essayist who references his occupancy at his friend William Wordsworth's former house, Dove Cottage, in his memoir Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (2,7) |
| KNOCKANDO | Distillery in Scotland named after the Moray village in which it is located (9) |
| CHALET | Which cottage is common in alpine regions (6) |
| LAKEDISTRICT | English area in which one can visit Dove Cottage |
| STOKEPOGES | Buckinghamshire village in which Thomas Gray is believed to have composed his Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard |
| HAWORTH | West Yorkshire village in which the Bronte parsonage, home of English novelists Charlotte, Anne and Emily, is located (7) |
| BLADON | Oxfordshire village in which Winston Churchill is buried (6) |
| HELPSTON | Village in which the poet John Clare was born in 1793 (8) |
| AMBRIDGE | Village in which The Archers is set (8) |
| COGITATES | Thinks cottage is in need of renovation (9) |
| WORDSWORTH | Dove Cottage was the home of which English poet? (10) |
| DOWNE | Kent village in which Origin Of Species author, Charles Darwin, died in 1882 |
| POGES | Buckinghamshire village in which Thomas Gray composed his Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (5,5) |
| STOKE | Buckinghamshire village in which Thomas Gray composed his Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (5,5) |
| LLAREGGUB | Imaginary small Welsh village in which Dylan Thomas' play Under Milk Wood is set |
| STOKEMANDEVILLE | Buckinghamshire village in which the Paralympic Games originated in July 1948 (5,10) |
| MOSTYN | Flintshire village in which pigs are consumed by day (6) |
