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- 1 2 Retired Chartered Surveyor Hector Mark Wilks at directorstats.co.uk. Retrieved 4 November 2017.
- 1 2 Canterbury City Council Meeting Minutes, November 1992 at eastkenthousing.org.uk. Retrieved 31 May 2018.
- ↑ "Kent looks with fear to the future" New Scientist.11 October 1973, p 100. Retrieved 4 November 2017.
- ↑ Wilks, H M (1960) "The rediscovery of Orchis simia in Kent", Transactions of the Kent Field Club. 1: pp. 50-55.
- ↑ "Park Gate Down". Kent Wildlife Trust. 13 March 2007. Archived from the original on 7 November 2017. Retrieved 13 August 2008.
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