 hockliffe is a village and civil parish in bedfordshire on the crossroads of the a5 road which lies upon the course of the roman road known as watling street and the a4012 road. it is about four miles east of leighton buzzard. nearby places are heath and reach, eggington, stanbridge, battlesden, toddington, tebworth and tilsworth. hockliffe is in heath and reach ward which sends a councillor to central bedfordshire council. the ward includes the villages of heath and reach, hockliffe, eggington, stanbridge, tilsworth, tebworth, and wingrave. the ward was created in 2011 and has since been represented by councillor mark versallion.http://www.luton-dunstable.co.uk/news/mark-and-ian-go-on-parade-with-the-navy-17062011.htm ==clipstone brook== there was a term applied from the 18th century which was "as straight as hockley brook" because of the meandering bends of the said brook. the correct name of the brook is the clipstone brook. the first field (though in the parish of chalgrave) is still known by locals as the old ride, due to the original crossing of the brook of the original woburn road the later road being constructed in the 19th century through to the second battlesden road turning near to the village of milton bryan. the new woburn road is about a hundred yards to the west from the said crossing and is now used by farm vehicles over a newer bridge. the secondfield was known as horseshoe corner as the brook was shaped like a horseshoe before it was straightened out by a farmer after the second world war. recently there have been regular sitings of the invasive signal crayfish, pacifastacus leniusculus, in the brook. it was noted in the local newspaper, the leighton buzzard observer, that one was found inside a toy lobster during a clear out of a section of the brook near leighton buzzard in 2009. ==hockliffe radio station== during the second world war a czechoslovak military intelligence wireless transmission station was situated just outside hockliffe.neil rees (compiler), the secret history of the czech connection â the czechoslo
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