primary sources
- Country Life (consulted at its Picture library, formerly at Southwark, and the Museum of English Rural Life, University of Reading)
- The Times Digital Archive (Surrey County Council Libraries)
- DM, Dorking Museum
- SC267 Newspaper cuttings collection SC.R 16 Box Hill Preservation
- MERL, Museum of English Rural Life Collections, University of Reading
- CPRE correspondence files with affiliated societies National Trust and Friends of Box Hill
- Box Hill Management Committee (BHMC) minute books
- BHMC newspaper cuttings books
- SHC. Surrey History Centre
- Ac 1358/1/23 Dorking Urban District Council minute book
- CC90/40 Deepdene Estate sale particulars, 1921 398/56 High Ashurst sale poster [October 1918] 815/7 High Ashurst sale particulars, 1921
- 2442 Mickleham Parish Council minute book 2572 Farrer MSS
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- The Manchester Guardian The Observer
- The Saturday Review
- TNA The National Archives
- TNA WO 339/50356 Capt. O.E. Warburg
- UN, University of Nottingham Manuscripts and Special Collections
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