Hockliffe

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Hockliffe is a village in Bedfordshire on the crossroads of the A5 road (formerly Watling Street) and the A4012 road.

It is about four miles east of Leighton Buzzard. Nearby places are Eggington, Battlesden, Toddington, Tebworth, and Tilsworth.

During the Second World War a Czechoslovak military intelligence wireless transmission station was situated just outside Hockliffe.[1] [2]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Neil Rees (compiler), The Secret History of The Czech Connection – The Czechoslovak Government in Exile in London and Buckinghamshire, England, 2005, ISBN 0-9550883-0-5.
  2. ^ Jean Yates and Sue King (compilers), Dunstable and District at War from Eyewitness Accounts, Book Castle, 2006, ISBN 1-903747-79-1, pages 276-283.

[edit] Further reading

  • S. Coleman, Hockliffe, Bedfordshire County Council (Bedfordshire Parish Surveys, Historic Landscape and Archaeology, 1), 1983, ISBN 0-907041-08-6.

[edit] External links


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Coordinates: 51°55′N, 0°35′W

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