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- ↑ "Orpington Urban District". A Vision of Britain through Time. GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 24 July 2022.
- ↑ Royal Commission on Local Government in Greater London: 1957–1960: Report, 1960, HMSO
