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[[Bara Gali]] about 40km from Murree, also was a small cantonment, occupied in the hot summer months by one of the British mountain batteries which were stationed at [[Rawalpindi]] in the winter.<ref>[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V06_431.gif "Bara Gali"] ''Imperial Gazetteer of India, Volume 6'', page 425.</ref>(Spelling variants: Bara Gali/Baragully)
Changla Gali was situated on the road from Murree to Abbottabad, 9 miles from the former and 31 miles from the latter place. It was the head-quarters of the Northern Command School of Musketry, also referred to as the First Circle School of Musketry.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.280096/page/n298/mode/1up Page 229] ''Gazetteer Of The Hazara District 1907'', published 1908. Archive.org, mirror from Digital Library of India.</ref><ref>[https://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?volume=10&objectid=DS405.1.I34_V10_179.gif "Changla Gali"] ''Imperial Gazetteer of India, Volume 10, page 173.</ref> (spelling variant Changlagali/Changligali ).
[[Ghora Dakha]] was a small cantonment on the road between Dunga Gali and Murree, 3 miles from the former and 15 from the latter place. During the summer months it was occupied by a detachment of British infantry.<ref>[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V12_242.gif "Ghora Dakka"] ''Imperial Gazetteer of India, Volume 12'', page 236.</ref> (Spelling variants Ghora/Gora Dakka/Dhaka)
(Spelling variants: Kalabagh/ Kala Bagh)
[[Khaira Gali]] was a small cantonment on the road between Abbottabad and Murree, also occupied in the summer months by one of the British mountain batteries which were stationed at [[Rawalpindi]] in the winter.<ref>[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V15_213.gif "Khaira Gali]" ''Imperial Gazetteer of India, Volume 15'', page 207.</ref> (Spelling variants : Khaira/ Khairagali/ Khair/ Khyra Gali/ Galli/ Khyragilly/ Khyragully)
There was a Rest Camp at Tret.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.280096 ''Gazetteer Of The Hazara District 1907'']. A volume in the series ''N W F Province Gazetteers''. Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection.
*[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.c2740836?urlappend=%3Bseq=155 "Murree"] page 125 ''A list of inscriptions on Christian tombs or monuments in the Punjab, North-West Frontier Province, Kashmir and Afghanistan possessing historical or archaeological interest Part 1'' by Miles Irving (1910) HathiTrust Digital Library. Also available [https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.93072/page/124/mode/2up Archive.org version].
*[https://archive.org/details/jramc-1927-vol48/page/393/mode/2up "Notes on Khairagali and Changligali, North-West Frontier Province"] by Major J E M Boyd, RAMC, page 393 ''Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps, Volume 48 1927'' Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.2799 '' A Handbook to the North-West Frontier including Jhelum Rawalpindi and Hazara Districts''] by Cyril James Davey 1942. Archive.org, mirror from Pahar-Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. Includes “Murree” from [https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.2799/page/27/mode/2up page 28] and “Other Stations in the Murree Hills” from page 29
*[http://pahar.in/pahar/2002-from-kashmir-to-kabul-the-photographs-of-john-burke-and-william-baker-1860-1900-by-khan-pdf/ ''From Kashmir to Kabul: The photographs of John Burke and William Baker 1860-1900''] by Omar Khan 2002. Download from Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset (MCADD). Includes chapters about [[Peshawar]], '''Murree''', [[Kashmir]], the [[2nd Afghan War| Second Afghan War]], [[Lahore]].
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