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  1. John Timbs' Abbeys, Castles and Ancient Halls of England and Wales
  2. Hart, Kelly The Mistresses of Henry VIII.  The History Press, 2010.  P. 73.  ISBN 9780752454962
  3. http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/dnb/19137.html Sir Jonas Moore
  4. Calvert, Carl The Greenwich Meridian in the Space Age (1999). 7 2011.
  5. Greenwich time ball
  6. Propaganda by Deed the Greenwich Observatory Bomb of 1894
  7. Reopening of the new Royal Observatory, Greenwich
  8. Bennett, Keith (2004), Bucher, Jay L., ed., The Metrology Handbook, Milwaukee, WI: American Society for Quality Measurement, p. 8, ISBN 978-0-87389-620-7 .
  9. Walford, Edward (1878), Old and New London, vol. VI, <http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=45276> .

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