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- ↑ Gazetteers Archived 2007-12-30 at the Wayback Machine at ukgenealogy.co.uk (accessed 4 November 2007)
- ↑ Descriptive Gazetteer Search Archived 2008-12-03 at the Wayback Machine at visionofbritain.org.uk (accessed 1 October 2008)