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- ↑ "Heronswood Estate (listing VIC339)". Australia Heritage Places Inventory. Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities . Retrieved 28 July 2016.
- ↑ Oxford Companion to Gardens, Oxford University Press, 2006.
- ↑ "Victorian Heritage Register listing for Heronswood House (listing RNE5799)". Australia Heritage Places Inventory. Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities . Retrieved 28 July 2016.
- ↑ Club, The Diggers. "St Erth history". The Diggers Club. Retrieved 1 November 2023.