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- ↑ Colyer 1974
- ↑ Elrington 1957
- ↑ Drew 1967 , pp. 25–42
- ↑ "Welsh Road (A550) and Dehon House Lodge (C) Sue Adair :: Geograph Britain and Ireland". Geograph.org.uk. Retrieved 16 September 2016.