Paper 2 – 13Th October 2010

SW England Level 4 - Paper 2 – 13th October 2010

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SOUTH WEST ENGLAND TOURIST GUIDE REGISTRATION EXAMINATIONS LEVEL 4

Wednesday, 13th October 2010 at 1400 hours

PAPER TWO

Time allowed: TWO HOURS (2 HOURS)

This paper comprises 200 questions, all of which should be answered.

Notes

1. Please write your candidate number at the top of this page (the invigilator has your number).

2. The answers should be written on the question paper.

3. Please write legibly in pen.

SW England Level 4 - Paper 2 – 13th October 2010

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REGIONAL/MULTIPLE COUNTIES

Name the river that acts as a boundary 1 between Devon and Cornwall.

Give the distance in miles or kilometres of

2 Lundy Island from the coast of Devon.

Name the main constituents of ‘cob walling’. 3

In 1655 there was an unsuccessful Royalist uprising of major historical significance for 4 the West Country. Its leader was executed. Name the leader.

Name the location of ONE of the sites in the 5 SW region that holds a large annual agricultural fair/show.

Name the grievance which led to the 1549 rebellion in the Devon and Cornwall 6 sometimes referred to as the Western Rising.

Name the Roman road that ran between:

a) Badbury Rings and Old Sarum, and a) 7

b) Exeter and Lincoln b)

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Give the location of the Ribena factory.

The name ‘Atlantic Highway’ is applied to

9 what route in the SW region?

To what structure thought to date from the 10 post Roman period does the name “Wansdyke” refer?

What event of importance throughout 11 England took place in Wessex in the year 878?

DORSET

State the location and the name of the 1 town/village where the author Thomas

Hardy’s heart is buried.

Name the VIP guest who was killed at the

first international aviation meeting held in 2 Bournemouth in 1910 as part of its

centenary celebrations.

Which castle was used by Enid Blyton in 3 the Famous Five stories as inspiration for Kirrin Castle?

a) In which year did Jane Austen stay in a) Lyme Regis? 4

b) Name her novel which features Lyme? b)

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Name the fictitious character in Far from 5 the Madding Crown who is buried in Puddletown (Weatherby) Church Yard

What, of archaeological interest, was 6 discovered in 2009 in a pit as a result of the new Weymouth Relief Road?

Where would you go in Dorset to see the 7 Stevenson Memorial Gardens? (Gardens to Robert Louis Stevenson)

a) Name the figure whose statue is outside a) St Peter’s church Dorchester. 8

b) Why is he commemorated? b)

Why is John White remembered in St

9 Peter’s church Dorchester?

Name the venue and the town/city which is 10 the present ‘home’ of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.

Name the Dorset family whose ancestral

11 home is Minterne House.

Give the location of the burial site of Mary

12 Wollstonecraft Shelley.

a) By what name is the great pandemic of a) 1348 known?

b) Name the port through which it is b) believed to have arrived in England.

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Give the proper name of the area referred 14 to by Thomas Hardy in his novels as ‘the Vale of the Little Dairies’.

Name the King who has a statue in 15 Weymouth.

Name the Dorset farmer who successfully

16 protected his family from smallpox by

infecting them with cowpox.

Name the famous person who died in 1935 17 and is buried in the church yard at St Nicholas’ Church Morton

a) Give the length of Chesil Beach in a) either miles or in kilometres. 18 b) Name the lagoon behind Chesil Beach. b)

Milton Abbey was sold in 1752. Give the 19 name of the purchaser.

Name the celebrity chef associated with the 20 River Cottage TV series.

Name the Dorset manor house which sheltered King Charles 11 for 19 days after 21 his defeat at the Battle of Worcester in 1651

Where in Dorset would you find a chained 22 library?

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Name the town in Dorset which has earth 23 walls/ramparts built by King Alfred

Give the name of the person who, in 1811/12 made the first major fossil 24 discovery in the Lyme Bay area.

Give the name of the abbey where King 25 Canute died in 1035.

Give the name of the lake created by clay 26 extraction at Furzebrook.

In 2007, Brownsea Island hosted prolonged celebrations. 27 Give the reason for these celebrations.

Name the Neolithic henges monument in Dorset with a 12th century church within one 28 of the henge circles.

Where in Dorchester did Judge Jefferies 29 hold his Bloody Assize?

Name the Dorset school which was 30 refounded in 1550

Name the village in which Richard Poore, 31 [Bishop of Salisbury] is buried.

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Give the meaning of the phrase “stabbed 32 by a ‘Bridport Dagger’”.

DEVON

Give the present day name of Isca 1 Dumnoniorum.

In which year was the building of 2 Devonport dockyard begun?

Name the founder of the Home & Colonial 3 Tea Association chain of grocery stores who built a castle in Devon.

Name the river which flows through 4 Bideford.

Name the port where William of Orange 5 and Mary Stuart landed in 1688

Name the Devon town where the Grand 6 Western Canal Basin and Country park HQ is to be found.

Name ONE of the principal materials 7 carried on the canal during its working life.

Name the author of the book Tarka the 8 Otter

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Name the designer of 6 stained glass windows in St. Andrew’s Church, 9 Plymouth.

Name the town where the Goose Fair 10 takes place.

Name the town in which Thomas 11 Newcomen was born

Name the town/city with the oldest 12 Guildhall (1468) in England still in use

In what year was the building of the 13 present Exeter Cathedral started?

Name the site in Plymouth where the 14 National Armada memorial may be found

Name the location of the only Pumping Station from Brunel’s ‘Atmospheric 15 Railway’ to survive intact.

In which well known special area of Devon is “Jay’s Grave”; “Childe’sTomb” and 16 “Wistman’s Wood”.

Name the locally made product which is the subject of several of the displays in the 17 Allhallows Museum in Honiton.

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a) SE In which area a) or b) or c) of Devon are

the “South Hams”? 18 b) SW

(tick or ring your answer) c) Central Southern

Name the school in Devon attended by the 19 writer R D Blackmore and Archbishop William Temple.

Name the only two points in Southern England, both on Dartmoor, which are over 20 2000ft/610 metres.

Name ONE well known product made and 21 sold at Buckfast Abbey.

Name the canal in Devon which was built 22 in the 1560s

Who designed the Royal Albert Bridge? 23

Name the first Bishop of Exeter (circa 24 1050).

Name the picturesque, popular, private 25 village on the north Devon coast.

What happened in Lynmouth on 15 August 26 1952 which is commemorated by a tablet in St Mary’s Church, Lynton?

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Name the port from which James Cook set 27 out in 1772 and 1776

Name the birthplace of the 16th century 28 courtier, explorer and historian Sir Walter Raleigh

What is of particular interest on the crest of 29 Brentor?

Name the Portrait artist whose father was 30 master of Plymouth Grammar school from 1715.

Name the principal rock found on Exmoor? 31

CORNWALL

Name the patron saint of Cornwall 1

Name the author of the “Poldark” series of 2 novels.

In the Cornish language what does ‘Pen’ 3 mean? (as in Pentire, Penwith)

Name the English King, who, in 936, fixed the boundary between England and 4 Cornwall as the East bank of the River Tamar

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Name the religious building to be visited at 5 ‘Come to Good’ near Feock.

Name the location where Lawrence Binyon 6 wrote the famous ‘They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old’ in 1914.

a) Name the TWO places at either end of the

7 Saints Way (‘Forth an Syns’ in Cornish)

What is ‘Star-gazy Pie’? 8

a) Name the last person, considered by a) tradition, to have had Cornish as her

first language.

b) In what year, as given on the b) gravestone, did this person die.

Name the author, whose pen name was Q 10 and who lived at ‘The Haven’ in Fowey.

Name the 19th century vicar of Morwenstow (also poet, antiquarian) who is know for writing the ‘Song of the 11 Western Men’ with its rousing chorus “And shall Trelawney die?”

On which date is “‘Obby ‘Oss” day in 12 Padstow?

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Name the founder of the Minack theatre. 13

In which coastal town was John Opie the 14 artist born?

a) Name the developer/builder of a) Charleston Harbour.

15 b) For trade in what principal product was it developed? b)

What links St Michael’s Mount and the 16 mainland? It serves as a transport route at low tide.

In 1919, 31 men were killed in a mining 17 disaster. Name the mine.

What is the significance of Edward, the 18 Black Prince, for Cornwall?

Name the Cornish “gentleman/inventor” who worked out how to create ‘limelight’.

19 He also installed Blue light (oxygen introduced into the centre of a flame (cf blow torch), to produce a bright light) with reflecting mirrors used in lighthouses.

Name the principal town on St. Mary’s, Isles of Scilly 20

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Give the Cornish term for a deserted 21 tin/copper mine

In which coastal village is the 22 restaurant/café ‘Fifteen Cornwall’?

Name the castle alleged to be the one 23 where the (legendary) Dark Ages King Mark lived

Slaughter Bridge, Camelford in c540 AD may have been the site of the fatal injury to 24 a most famous character from Celtic history/myth. Name this person.

On what Cornish emblem are gold bezants/coins to be seen which are 25 popularly held to represent the Crusader ransom paid by Cornwall (“One and All”) for King Richard I?

What punishment was given out to Jan Tregeagle, Steward of Lanhydrock, who 26 was alleged to have robbed his master and extorted unfair rents, amongst other evil deeds?

In which area of Cornwall, a), b) or c) is the a) Penwith ‘Goonhilly Satellite Earth Station’ located? 27 b) Lizard (Ring/tick the appropriate area) c) Bodmin Moor

Name the Cornish Saint associated with St Ives. 28

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Name the current principal fishing port in 29 Cornwall

Name TWO transport links connecting a) Penzance to the Isles of Scilly

Describe a Cornish Fairing. 31

The Fishing Boat Registration letters for boats based in Padstow are PW, for St 32 Ives, SS. Give the registration letters used for Falmouth.

GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Name the Queen who is buried at Sudeley 1 Castle.

How much of the Forest of Dean is within 2 the county?

Name the organisation responsible for the 3 Westonbirt Arboretum.

Name the person who was the inspiration 4 for the museum at Berkeley.

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Badminton House is the country seat of 5 which family?

Name the family who lived in Batsford 6 House during World War I

Name the river which flows through 7 Bourton-on-the-Water.

Constructed in 19th Century, the Tyndale Monument stands close to North Nibley where William Tyndale is believed to have 8 been born.

Of what achievement does the tower remind us?

What is the name of the Long Barrow at 9 Uley?

Which church is known as ‘The Cathedral of the Cotswolds’? 10

Which town is known as the ‘Capital of the Cotswolds’? 11

In which year was the Thames and Severn a) 1772 Canal opened? 12 b) 1810 Select your answer from the options a) – c) opposite c) 1789

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Name the TWO rivers which meet at a) Tewskesbury 13

Name the order to which the monks 14 belonged, who came from Caldey Island to found Prinknash Abbey

What is the full dedication of Gloucester 15 Cathedral?

Name the invention made in the 1940s in which both the engineer Frank Whittle and 16 the Gloster Aircraft Company were involved.

Name the famous battle fought in 1471 17

Give the modern name for Roman 18 Corinium

What type of mining took place, well into 19 the 20th Century, at Clearwell Caves in the Forest of Dean?

Name the area of the county associated 20 with Robert Forester Mushet (1811-1891) who perfected the Bessemer Process.

Name the person who was born near 21 Gloucester in the mid 1300s and was, four times, Lord Mayor of London.

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The Cistercian Abbey of Hailes, near Cheltenham, was founded in 1216 by 22 Richard, Earl of Cornwall as a thank offering. What was Earl Richard grateful for?

Name a town which has the Roman Fosse 23 Way as its High Street

What is Offa’s Dyke? 24

Describe the colour of Double Gloucester 25 cheese.

In which Gloucestershire town/city was the 26 composer Gustav Holst born?

Name the writer you associate with the 27 village of Slad.

In which town/city is the University of 28 Gloucestershire?

Name the Abbot, who in 1085, laid the foundations of the present church, which 29 became and remains still, Gloucester Cathedral

Who instigated the establishment and work 30 of the Wildlife and Wetlands Trust at Slimbridge?

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In what year was King Edward II murdered 31 at Berkley Castle?

Where is there a now decommissioned 32 nuclear power station in the county?

SOMERSET & BRISTOL

Name the museum which has the largest European collection of naval aircraft and 1 Concorde

Name the seaside resort which, in July 2010, celebrated the rebuilding of its pier. 2 (No date has yet been fixed for the full opening of the pier.)

Name the principal rock found in the 3 Mendip Hills.

Describe the Sweet Track on the Somerset 4 Levels.

Name the King you associate with 5 Athelney

Who was the designer of Blaise Hamlet? 6

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Name the fictional bride whose wedding 7 took place in Oare Church

Name the longest preserved steam railway 8 in England

Name the Somerset village where Samuel 9 Taylor Coleridge lived

Name the town/city in which the annual Hot 10 Air Balloon Fiesta takes place

a) Name the man who had Farleigh a) Hungerford Castle built. 11 b) In which century did this happen? b)

Name the explorers who sailed from Bristol

12 in 1497.

Name the pub in Porlock visited by 13 Southey, Coleridge and Wordsworth.

Name the last Abbot of Glastonbury 14

To whom/what does the name Jack Blandiver apply in Wells? 15

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Where can you see a stone circle in 16 Somerset?

Name the family whose home was Dunster 17 Castle from 14th to 20th centuries?

Name the county town of Somerset. 18

a) Give the location, in Somerset, of the a) Wellington Monument 19 b) How high is it? b)

In which town/city is the Vicar’s Close? 20

What metal did the Roman’s mine in the 21 Mendips?

In which town/city is the ‘Arnolfini Gallery’? 22

Name the person who sold his “Discovery 23 Soda Water” in Dowry Street, Bristol in 1812

What important event in the development of shipping took place in Bristol in July 24 1843?

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Name the area of Bristol where the British 25 Concorde aircraft was designed and built

Name ONE site in Glastonbury where 26 there are ‘Holy Thorn’ trees.

In which town/city are ‘Aardman 27 Animations’ located? (makers of Wallace and Gromit and Chicken Run)

In which year is it thought King Ine founded 28 a church in Wells?

Name the town/city in Somerset with 29 strong involvement in the modern helicopter industry.

Which of the surviving structures of 30 Glastonbury Abbey is the most complete?

Name the poet whose ashes are buried in 31 East Coker

WILTSHIRE

What is the actual meaning of the word 1 ‘downs’?

In which decade of the 19th century did the 2 government begin purchasing areas of Salisbury Plain for military purposes?

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What is the name of the HQ of the National 3 Trust in Swindon?

Name the man who began his outstanding 4 career in politics by entering Parliament in1735 as Member for Old Sarum

Name TWO sites in Wiltshire with which a) the 17th century antiquarian John Aubrey is 5 strongly connected b)

Name the bird which appears on the 6 Wiltshire County flag.

Give the present day name of 7 ‘Sorbiodunum’

To which architectural period does St 8 John’s Church, Devizes belong?

By whom was the ceremony performed in 9 1990 when the Kennet and Avon Canal reopened along its whole length?

What industry ‘created’ New Swindon’? 10

What name is widely and generally used (especially in the context of the 11 Stonehenge monument) to refer to siliceous sandstone rock fragments of preglacial deposits?

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In what decade of the 20th century did 12 aerial photography reveal the true nature of the site at Woodhenge discovered?

Name the chalk stream flowing W-E 13 through the southern part of the county from which the county derives its name.

What defence establishment has its 14 headquarters at Larkhill?

Name a site in Wiltshire where you can find 15 a ‘doom’ painting

What symbol has recently been carved into 16 the chalk at Fovant?

Name the architect who lived at St Mary’s Grange Alderbury in the 1830s, who was 17 involved with the restoration of the Hall of John Halle and the building of the Roman Catholic church of St Osmund in Salisbury

In which year did William Henry Fox Talbot 18 create the earliest surviving photographic negative using a camera?

Name the stately home for which Sir Anthony Van Dyke painted a number of 19 portraits which are integral to the plan for the interior decoration of the state rooms.

After whom is the museum at Avebury 20 named?

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In which year was Salisbury Cathedral 21 dedicated?

Where could you go to see motor racing in 22 Wiltshire?

Name ONE of the very early military (RFC) 23 airfields in Wiltshire.

For what reason did William the Conqueror 24 summon all landholders to Old Sarum in 1086?

Name the family who created the house 25 and gardens at Stourhead.

a) In which house did John Constable a) stay when he visited Archdeacon

Fisher in Salisbury? 26

b) What is the building used for now? b)

Name the author of the novels The Spire’ 27 and ‘Lord of the Flies’.

What are the ‘Nile Clumps’? 28

Name the location of a flight of 29 canal 29 locks

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In what year was the Box Tunnel (railway) 30 opened?

Name the bishop who rebuilt the castle at 31 Devizes in 1120?

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