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Baggs, A. P.; Freeman, J.; Smith, C.; Stevenson, J. H.; Williamson, E. (1999). "Little Bedwyn". In
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415:Reading to Taunton railway line
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1101:"St. Michael's, Little Bedwyn"
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1144:Stuart Coles (2007).
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