Ok. If you thought that last years Marathon where you had to identify 25 different years from the cryptic clues was hard; this year we present the Geography Alphabet Quiz.

Here are 25 Essex places, each identified by a clue. All you have to do is work out the name of the place. Some are large town, others small villages others are just places.

So here are the answers!

Clue

Answer

A male sheep’s home is in the belfry

Ramsden Bellhouse

Look inside caravan gears

 Vange

Could be Westminster, Chelsea or Lambeth

 Abridge

Within an uneven donkey’s stable

 Nevendon

This bird of prey is providing water

 Hawkwell

A lord’s re-arranged clone

 Earls Colne

Fire lighter in emerald

 Matching Green

Ocean beneath the colliery

 Pitsea

Plough the Lancashire town

 Tilbury

Make up mountain

 Yardley Hill

Church not in the north

 Southminster or Southchurch

Athletic Christie

 Linford

Colourful bird lights up

 Jaywick

Ship’s kitchen in the forest

 Galleywood

Cut down Edward

 Felsted

Solid fuel in the north west

Colchester 

These assizes could be in Kent

 Dovercourt

Where the dead body is

 Ingrave

Ms Osborne’s daughter against Eve’s garden

 Kelveden

Reformed organ last on the line

 Ongar

The regal gardens

 Queen's Park

Raise the cathedral

 Upminster

“The Tempest” staring Shakespeare

 Willingale

Kelly Holmes can do this

 Runwell

A tedious porker

 Boreham

 We are sorry, but we could not think of an Essex Location beginning with either X or Z!