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- ↑ K. Cameron, The Place-Names of Derbyshire, English Place-Name Society 27–29 (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1959).
- ↑ C. Drewry, Wormhill: The History of a High Peak Village (Little Longstone: Ashridge Press, 2007). ISBN 978-1-901214-82-6