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- ↑ "Reviewed work: Hampshire, Wilfrid Ball, Telford Varley; Essex, L. Burleigh Bruhl, A. R. Hope Moncrieff; Worcestershire, Thomas Tyndale, A. G. Bradley". The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs. 15 (76): 254. 1 July 1909. ISSN 0951-0788. JSTOR 858006.
- ↑ Evans, Arthur A. (1911). Cambridge County Geographies: Monmouthshire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- ↑ Knight, Francis A. (1909). Cambridge County Geographies: Somerset. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- ↑ H.K. (1 March 1929). "Reviewed work: Cambridge County Geographies. South Lancashire, A. Wilmore". Geography. 15 (1): 81. ISSN 0016-7487. JSTOR 40559571.
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