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Ahier, Philip (1934) “Newhouse Hall and Its Associations in the Houses in the Manor of Huddersfield”

Ahier, Philip (1943) “Legends and Traditions of Huddersfield and Its District”

Bates, Brian (2002) “The Real Middle Earth: Magic and Mystery In the Dark Ages”

Bennett, Paul (2003) “The Old Stones of Elmet”

Betteridge, Alan (1988) “Calderdale: It’s Architecture and History”

Billingsley, John (1996) “Carved Heads in the Calder Valley” in Transactions of the Halifax Antiquarian Society

Billingsley, John (2001) “Stony Gaze: Investigating Celtic and Other Stone Heads”

Billingsely, John (Ed.) (2002) “Aspects of Calderdale: Discovering Local History”

Billingsley, John (2007) “Folk Tales from Calderdale:  Place Legends and Lore from the Calder Valley”

Billingsley, John (2010) “West Yorkshire Folk Tales”

Billingsley, John (2011) “Hood, Head and Hag: Further Folk Tales from Calderdale”

Bord, Janet & Colin (1986) “Sacred Waters: Holy Wells and Water Lore in Britain and Ireland”

Bretton, R. (1942) “Ashday in Southowram” in Transactions of the Halifax Antiquarian Society

Bretton, R. (1965) “Nether House, Hove Edge” in Transactions of the Halifax Antiquarian Society

Campbell, Marie (1999) “Curious Tales of Old West Yorkshire”

Cass, Eddie (2004) “The Pace-Egg Plays of the Calder Valley”

Clay, T.H. (1933) “Slead Hall” in Transactions of the Halifax Antiquarian Society

Chitham, Edward (1998) “The Birth of Wuthering Heights”

Clarke, David (1995) “A Guide to Britain’s Pagan Heritage”

Clarke, David & Roberts, Andy (1996) “Twilight of the Celtic Gods”

Comfort, Arthur (1913) “Ancient Halls In and About Halifax”

Crabtree, John (1836) “A Concise History of the Parish and Vicarage of Halifax”

Davies, Owen (2007) “The Haunted: A Social History of Ghosts”

Federation of Women’s Institutes (1991) “The South and West Yorkshire Village Book”

Garside, M.W. (1923) “The Social History of Halifax in the 17th Century” in Transactions of the Halifax Antiquarian Society

Goor, Kenneth (2008) “Haunted Leeds”

Goss, Michael (1983) “The Evidence for Phantom Hitch-Hikers”

Green, Barbara (1991) “The Outlaw Robin Hood: His Yorkshire Legend”

Green, Barbara (2001) “Secrets of the Grave”

Green, Barbara (2001) “The Mystery of Robin Hood’s Grave and the Riddle of the Prioress”

Haigh, Donald (1997) “At Greetland In the Toppe of an Hill: Four Hundred Years of the Roman Altar 1597-1997” in Transactions of the Halifax Antiquarian Society

Haigh, Mike (1986) “St. Helen’s Well, Stainland” in Source (First Series) Issue 4

Hamerton, Lucy (1901) “Olde Eland”

Hargreaves, J. & Turner, J.M. (1984) “Thunderclaps from Heaven: Calderdale’s Heritage of Nonconformity”

Heginbottom, J.A. (1989) “Early Christian Sites in Calderdale” in Transactions of the Halifax Antiquarian Society

Henderson, William (1879) “Notes On the Folk-lore of the Northern Counties of England”

Hughes, Glyn (1987) “Millstone Grit: A Pennine Journey”

Hunter, Joseph (1842) “The Rise of Old Dissent Exemplified in the Life of Oliver Heywood”

Hutton, Ronald (1996) “The Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year In Britain”

Jackson, Sidney (1973) “Celtic and Other Stone Heads”

Kaye, J.M. (1979) “The Eland Murders, 1350-1: A Study of the Legend of the Elland Feud” in The Yorkshire Archaeological Journal Vol. 51

Lister, J. (1902) “Greetland’s Ancient Halls” in Transactions of the Halifax Antiquarian Society

Lister, J. (1907) “High Sunderland” in Transactions of the Halifax Antiquarian Society

Lofthouse, Jessica (1976) “North Country Folklore”

Longbotham, A.T. (1934) “Clay House, Greetland” in Transactions of the Halifax Antiquarian Society

Manchester, Sean (1997) “The Vampire Hunter’s Handbook”

Marsden, F.H. (1932) “Some Notes on the Folklore of Upper Calderdale” in Folklore Vol. 43 No. 3

Merrifield, Ralph (1987) “The Archaeology of Ritual and Magic”

Mitchell, R. (1953) “Brighouse: Portrait of a Town”

Nortcliffe, David (1990) “Buildings of Brighouse”

Owens, Andy (1999) “Yorkshire Stories of the Supernatural”

Owens, Andy (2008) “Paranormal West Yorkshire”

Paradise, Albert (1984) “Memories of Stainland and Holywell Green”

Parker, James (1904) “Illustrated Rambles from Hipperholme to Tong”

Pearson, F.R. (1936) “Roman Yorkshire”

Pegg, Bob (1981) “Rites and Riots: Folk Customs of Britain and Europe”

Pobjoy, H.N. (1972) “The Story of the Ancient Parish of Hartshead-cum-Clifton”

Porritt, Arthur (1955) “It Happened Here”

Randles, Jenny (2002) “Supernatural Pennines”

Riley, Clifford (2007) “A Village Blacksmith”

Rinder, Albert (1987) “A History of Elland”

Roberts, Andy (1993) “Ghosts and Legends of Yorkshire”

Roberts, Andy (2007) “Cat Flaps! Northern Mystery Cats”

Roberts, Kai (2010) “The Screaming Skull of Sowood House” in Northern Earth, Issue 124

Roberts, Kai (2011) “Grave Concerns: The Follies & Folklore of Robin Hood’s Final Resting Place”

Roberts, Kai (2012) “Haunted Huddersfield”

Ross, Anne (1974) “Pagan Celtic Britain”

Shepherd, Valerie (1994) “Holy Wells In and Around Bradford”

Shepherd, Valerie (2002) “Holy Wells of West Yorkshire and the Dales”

Simpson, Jacqueline & Roud, Stephen (2008) “A Dictionary of English Folklore”

Stringfellow, G. (1980) “The Sowerby Bridge Rushbearing”

Stringfellow, G. (2010) “Rushes & Ale: A Brief History of Rushbearing”

Sutcliffe, T. (1928) “A Tour In Midgley” in Transactions of the Halifax Antiquarian Society

Thurston Hopkins, R. (1953) “Ghosts Over England”

Trigg, W.B. (1946) “Scout Hall, Shibden” in Transactions of the Halifax Antiquarian Society

Trubshaw, Bob (Ed.) (2005) “Explore Phantom Black Dogs”

Turner, J. Horsfall (1893) “History of Brighouse, Rastrick and Hipperholme”

Vint, William (Ed.) (1825) “The Life and Works of Oliver Heywood Volumes 1 – 5”

Wade, Stephen (2008) “Hauntings In Yorkshire”

Watson, Dr. John (1775) “The History and Antiquities of the Parish of Halifax”

Weatherhead, Paul (2004) “Weird Calderdale”

Westwood, Jennifer & Simpson, Jacqueline (2006) “The Lore of the Land”

Whitaker, Terence W. (1988) “North Country Ghosts and Legends”

Whitley, Alfred W. (1936) “The Roman Altar from Greetland” in Transactions of the Halifax Antiquarian Society

Woodhouse, Robert (2007) “Curiosities of West Yorkshire”

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