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- ↑ Popularising public sculpture in Britain From landscape gardens to forest trails University of South Africa
- ↑ Details of Grizedale Forest Park Forestry Commission website
- ↑ Grizedale Arts website, history page
editors Bill Grant & Paul Harris (1991). The Grizedale Experience: Sculpture, Arts & Theatre in a Lakeland Forest. Edinburgh: Canongate Press. ISBN 0-86241-354-0.{{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help)