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SW England Level 4 - Paper 2 – 13th October 2010 Candidate No………………… 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. 1 SW England Level 4 - Paper 2 – 13th October 2010 PLEASE WRITE YOUR ANSWER IN THE SPACE PROVIDED 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) 2 SW England Level 4 - Paper 2 – 13th October 2010 Give the location of the Ribena factory. 8 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) 3 SW England Level 4 - Paper 2 – 13th October 2010 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? 13 b) Name the port through which it is b) believed to have arrived in England. 4 SW England Level 4 - Paper 2 – 13th October 2010 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? 5 SW England Level 4 - Paper 2 – 13th October 2010 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. 6 SW England Level 4 - Paper 2 – 13th October 2010 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 7 SW England Level 4 - Paper 2 – 13th October 2010 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. 8 SW England Level 4 - Paper 2 – 13th October 2010 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? 9 SW England Level 4 - Paper 2 – 13th October 2010 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 10 SW England Level 4 - Paper 2 – 13th October 2010 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) b) What is ‘Star-gazy Pie’? 8 a) Name the last person, considered by a) tradition, to have had Cornish as her first language. 9 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? 11 SW England Level 4 - Paper 2 – 13th October 2010 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.

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