Names of UK towns and villages

[janeevans]

1) Full of vigour (4)

2) Norman won the day (8)

3) Dam is on top form (10)

4) Sounds as if we are cooking in silence (8)

5) Monks wrote their chronicles near its strangely shaped bridge (8)

6) Broken Bridge (10)

[inglepingle]

2) Hastings

[inglepingle]

6) Pontefract

[keen2learn]

Is 3 Motherwell?

[nightowl]

1) Hale ?

[janeevans]

Thanks everyone who helped, just need No's 4, & 5 .