Statistics for Shropshire A-Z

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	Hint	Answer	% Correct
D	On the Origin of Species naturalist from S	Charles Darwin	100%
C	Shropshire Blue is a kind of this food	Cheese	100%
A	Town named for an inn	Craven {Arms}	100%
I	Village named after a bridge built in 1779, the first of its kind in the world	Ironbridge	100%
L	Three heads of this animal are depicted on the county's flag	Leopard	100%
O	Earthwork built by a Mercian king on the Welsh border	Offa's Dyke	100%
P	Welsh kingdom that once controlled the area	Powys	100%
S	County town	Shrewsbury	100%
Y	Hill with a name that sounds like it refers to a tiny year	Yearlet	100%
Z	Shropshire Council's climate initiative	{Zero} {Carbon} Shropshire Plan	100%
B	Highest point in the county	Brown Clee Hill	0%
E	Town in the northwest named for the lake it sits on	Ellesmere	0%
F	Annual event held in S, the longest-running of its kind	Flower Show	0%
G	S's oldest pub	Golden Cross	0%
H	Ruined monastery near S; founded by the FitzAlans	Haughmond Abbey	0%
K	"Wild" highwayman who lived in a cave	Humphrey Kynaston	0%
J	Village near I; known for its early industry and ceramic production	Jackfield	0%
M	Market town on the Staffordshire border	Market Drayton	0%
N	Market town on the Staffordshire border	Newport	0%
X	Unusually named village	Ruyton {XI} {Towns}	0%
R	American football team based in T	Shropshire {Revolution}	0%
U	Waterway that crosses the county	Shropshire {Union} {Canal}	0%
T	New town named for a civil engineer	Telford	0%
Q	S's main park	The Quarry	0%
V	Fourth-largest city in Roman Britain	Viroconium	0%
W	Modern village on the site of V	Wroxeter	0%