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Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 scale Explorer map series, sheets 151-266
- ↑ Glamorgan XVII.NE (includes: Glyncorrwg; Rhondda.) (Map). 10,560. Ordnance Survey. 1900.
- ↑ Jones, John Llewelyn (1986). The Waterfalls of Wales (First ed.). London: Robert Hale Ltd. p. 95. ISBN 070902584X.
- ↑ Jones, John Llewelyn (1986). The Waterfalls of Wales (First ed.). London: Robert Hale Ltd. p. 187. ISBN 070902584X.
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- ↑ Jones, John Llewelyn (1986). The Waterfalls of Wales (First ed.). London: Robert Hale Ltd. p. 169. ISBN 070902584X.
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