Possible Clues:

• Boast about compound somewhere in the Midlands
• Variety of apple
• City church seized by one inflicting defeat?
• Cathedral city on the Severn
• Rejected argument about secret manoeuvres in Chinatown
• Traditionally, cricket tourists start here
• Where cricket tourists traditionally play their first major game
• We rectors contrive to get a bishopric
• Cathedral city of central England
• English cathedral city