South Downs Scrabble Club - Place names, rivers and mountains (A

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PLACES OR RIVERS (A—F)

ABRAM – village of Greater Manchester that is Southeast of Wigan
ABRIDGE – village in Essex close to the M25
ACTON – London district and village near Sudbury
ALASKA – the largest state of the USA
AMAZON – river and area in South America
AMMAN – the capital of Jordon
ANGOLA – a West African country
ANTARCTIC – the frozen continent
ARCADIA – region in the central Peloponnese in ancient Greece
ARLE – north-west part of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
ASCOT – racecourse and Berkshire town
BABEL – the city, possibly Babylon, where a biblical tower was built
BAGUIO – a city on North Luzon in the Philippines
BALBOA – Pacific terminal port in Panama, Central America
BALMORAL – holiday residence of the British royal family
BANGKOK – the capital and chief port of Thailand
BARBICAN - the concrete carbuncle in London
BARTON – many English towns of this name
BASTILLE – a fortress and prison of Paris, destroyed in French revolution
BAYAMO – city and capital of Granma provincia of eastern Cuba
BEDROCK – the home town of Fred Flintstone
BERKS – abbreviated form of the county of Berkshire
BERLIN – a large German city
BETHEL – a hamlet on Anglesey
BIGGIN – village and hamlet near Ashbourne, Derbyshire
BIGHORN – river and place of Custer’s last stand
BLIGHTY – serviceman’s slang for England or home
BOGIE – river in the Grampian region of Scotland
BOHEMIA – the central and western parts of the Czech Republic
BOLOGNA – city found in Northern Italy
BOLIVIA – a South American landlocked country
BORDEAUX – region in France famous for its wine
BOSTON – town in Lincolnshire and the USA
BOWERY – a New York city street frequented by drunks/down and outs
BRAZIL – large country of South America
BREDE – village and river of East Sussex
BRENT – a borough of London
BRINDISI – old Mediterranean port at the end of the Appian Way
BRISTOL – city of SW England, also of central Connecticut, USA
BROKES – in North Yorkshire, south-west of Richmond
BROUGHAM – locality near Penrith castle, Cumbria
BUCKIE – Grampian fishing town and resort
BULLER – river of South Island, New Zealand
BURNSIDE – name of several Scottish towns
BURSA – a popular tourist resort in Turkey
CAIRNGORMS – mountain range in Scotland
CALVARY – site of Jesus’ crucifixion at Jerusalem
CAMELOT – the seat of King Arthur’s court
CAMPOS – city found in the NE of Rio de Janeiro state, Eastern Brazil
CANADA – large North American country
CANN – hamlet just south of Shaftesbury, Dorset
CANTERBURY – city in Kent
CASHMERE – an alternative spelling of Kashmir
CAYMANS – group of islands in the Caribbean Sea
CHAD – landlocked country in North-Central Africa
CHARD – market town in Somerset
CHARLOTTE – commercial city found in the southern part of N. Carolina
CHEDDAR – a village in SW England. Famous for caves and cheese
CHEVIOTS – range of hills in Britain
CLAYMORE – an oilfield in Flotta, Scapa Flow
CHILE – a South American country
CLEEVE – residential area of Goring, Oxfordshire
CLINT – village near Harrogate
COATE – village east of Devizes, Wiltshire
COCHIN – town and port on the Arabian Sea in SW India
COLLIN – a village east of Dumfries
COLOGNE – commercial port in Germany
COLORADO – US state, also a river that flows down the Grand Canyon
CONGO – country in West-Central Africa
CORBY – town in Northamptonshire
CORDOBA – city of central Argentina and of South Spain
CRANAGE – village near Holmes Chapel, Cheshire
CRAVEN – district of North Yorkshire that includes Skipton
CREMONA – a city in Lombardy, North Italy
CREWE – a town in north-west England
CURRAGH – a prestigious Irish racecourse
CURRIE – area of outer Edingburgh
CYPRUS – large island in the Mediterranean Sea
DALTON – North Yorkshire villages and a hamlet in Cumbria
DELFT – town in South Holland known for it’s pottery
DELPH – localities of Oldham and Dudley
DERRY – alternative name for Londonderry
DEVA – Roman name for Chester
DEVON – picturesque county of Southwest England
DEVONPORT – district of Plymouth
DISCOED – locality of Powys west of Presteigne
DISS – small market town of Norfolk, near Norwich
DIZZARD – Cornwall locality near Bude
DOGGER – sea area and weather region in the North Sea
DOORN – a town of the Utrecht province, Netherlands
DOVER – ferry and cross-channel port of Kent
DRUID – hamlet west of Corwen, Clywd
EDDY – county in the south-east of New Mexico
ETNA – volcano on Sicily
EYRE – Highland locality on Skye
FLORENCE – Italian City and locality of Longton, Stoke-on-Trent
FLUSHING – a village and a hamlet in Cornwall
FULHAM – a district of Greater London
FUNDY – a bay in Southeast Canada remarkable for its swift tides
FRANKFURT – a commercial city in Germany

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