6 NOVEMBER 1982, Page 42

Fifth Clue

ach set of three questions leads to a 1i place somewhere in the British Isles. Remember the three questions all have the same answer.

1) A household word — along with Ex- eter, Gloucester and Warwick.

2) Associated with a hay cart, Hamp- stead Heath and 'a nasty green thing'.

3) It stood first in Europe until 1307, when another English city stood first in the world. By 1315 it was only third in England — although after 1572 it again stood first in Europe until in the nineteenth century it was beaten by Rouen, Hamburg, Cologne and Ulm.