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- ↑ "View map: Yorkshire CCXXXIV.13 (Newland With Woodhouse Moor; Normanton) - Ordnance Survey 25 inch England and Wales, 1841-1952". maps.nls.uk.
- ↑ "View map: Yorkshire CCXXXIV.11 (Castleford; Pontefract) - Ordnance Survey 25 inch England and Wales, 1841-1952". maps.nls.uk.
- ↑ "View map: Yorkshire CCXLIX.4 (Pontefract) - Ordnance Survey 25 inch England and Wales, 1841-1952". maps.nls.uk.
- ↑ "View map: Yorkshire CCXLVIII.3 (Stanley; Wakefield) - Ordnance Survey 25 inch England and Wales, 1841-1952". maps.nls.uk.