Whole greater than parts
This is a puzzle.
Each clue links to both a place and, with one exception, a named individual.
There are 12 places and 11 individuals and something else to name.
Confusingly, as well as the 12 places mentioned above, all the clues are linked to a single, different place. That different place – with a strong, local connection – is familiar to many if not all Spurtle readers.
You'll need to visit that nearby place to solve the puzzle. (It is not Lamb Island, shown on the map below. Ignore the map.)
A massive £20 prize and glory will go to the sender of the first complete set of correct solutions. There is no deadline yet. If we eventually set one, you’ll read about it on this page.
Answers by email, please, to: spurtle@hotmail.co.uk
CLUES
1) A salmon, hazel, bird and bell for local doctor with a pleasant smell.
2) A tree-bound hound beside the water, still standing tall, perhaps not as good as he oughta.
3) Chevalier, writer and moral fudge, home to a lawyer before a judge.
4) With oak and boar, his view of azure main some now deplore.
5) Strong fortress, gate and chapel, on buses for Argyll and Newbattle.
6) A castle, maman, veuve with nerve.
7) The flag and lamb and German–Netherlandish glam.
8) A cross and diseased old man so full of blood.
9) Two lions hold the tower for one who had no real power.
10) A pot of lilies for this lass, who sickened, faded, died, alas.
11) A ship in motion, victor on land and ocean.
12) Three towers and flags: hard times, more flags.
[Top-right: AI-generated image by perchance.org.]
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