Got 17. Following the English & Scottish Premier Leagues helps. Just thinking of American locations and stripping out the leading "New" from the name can also be useful. Worked for York.
I figured in England a town beginning with q had to have queen in it, then that was an easy jump to remembering the Marquess of Queensbury rules. (Only later did I discover I was thinking of Marquess of Queensberry, but spelling it wrong - thank goodness.)
Tyne and Wear is a metropolitan county that was brought into being in 1974. Not sure why anyone felt the need to introduce more counties or move towns from one to another, but it does exist.
A very good quiz. I have one comment on the picture, however. It is probably supposed to be of Oxford (cf. the "city of dons" hint), but it shows the chapel of Peterhouse college in Cambridge. Could you perhaps change it, Quizmaster?
Nice to do a UK based quiz after just seeing a vigorous debate about the quizzes here being too strongly based on the US. (Don't know if Jarrow is big enough to be called a town, though!)
I would have thought Jarrow was pretty well known because of Bede and the Jarrow Crusade. But then I missed Fishguard and that's currently at the same percentage, so I guess not!
(I’m from there!)