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    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...
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    required to once more pave the road. The section from Fourne Hill north of Hockliffe to Stony Stratford was paved at a cost of £7000 over the next two years...
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    ISBN 0-393-05163-3. Anon., The History of Jack and the Bean-Stalk, at The Hockliffe Project. Archived 26 April 2009 at the Wayback Machine Silva, Sara; Tehrani...
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    published Elephant Hunting in East Equatorial Africa. Neumann was born in Hockliffe, Bedfordshire, a village four miles east from Leighton Buzzard, the youngest...
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    junction 11a of the M1 to rejoin Watling Street between Dunstable and Hockliffe, then continues on to cross the Buckinghamshire border at the City of...
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  • Toutatis") and [VTERE] FELIX ([use this ring] happily") was discovered at Hockliffe, Bedfordshire. This inscription confirms that the TOT inscription does...
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    district of Bedfordshire, England. The settlement is close to Wingfield and Hockliffe, with the nearest town being Houghton Regis. Amenities in Tebworth include...
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    motorway junction 11A, rejoining the old Roman Road and passing through Hockliffe before becoming a dual carriageway as it approaches Milton Keynes. On...
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    Regis (to the south), and Hockliffe (to the west). Before 1929, the parish also included part of the village of Hockliffe. Chalgrave is part of the ward...
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    a dwelling in 1988. Nearby places are Leighton Buzzard, to the west, Hockliffe, to the east and Stanbridge to the south. At the eastern end of the village...
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    Warrington Becomes M1 motorway between junctions 22 and 24A. Used to start at Hockliffe on A5, north of Dunstable. Gradually cut back to Northampton, then Leicester...
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    Jack the Giant Killer by Joseph Jacobs Jack the Giant Killer from the Hockliffe Collection Le Morte D'Arthur by Thomas Malory Archived 19 September 2005...
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    extension of the B4009 after the towns it connected were bypassed. A4012 Hockliffe A4146 A4013 Kingsditch Benhall Originally a link road in Aylesbury; became...
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    left London to set up house at Trinity Hall Farm, near the village of Hockliffe in Bedfordshire, where he made a home not only for himself but for his...
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    village of Hockliffe in Bedfordshire. In November 1420, Hoccleve's fellow Privy Seal clerk John Bailey returned land and tenements in Hockliffe to him, which...
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    the Renouille family anglicised their name to Reynal moved to nearby Hockliffe Grange and let Eggington. The last of the Reynal's predeceased his wife...
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  • Battlesden, Chalgrave, Dunstable, Eaton Bray, Eversholt, Harlington, Hockliffe, Holcot, Houghton Regis, Husborne Crawley, Leighton Buzzard, Milton Bryan...
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    rerouted in 1728 through Broughton and Woburn to join the Watling Street at Hockliffe. Old Farm Park is a residential area in the south-east of the parish....
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  • Reach Henlow Henlow Camp Herrings Green Higham Gobion Hills End Hinwick Hockliffe Hockwell Ring Holme Holywell Honeydon Houghton Conquest Houghton Regis...
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    c. 4) for a section of the London-Chester road between Fornhill (near Hockliffe) and Stony Stratford. The basic principle was that the trustees would...
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    Buzzard, the river is joined by Clipstone Brook from Milton Bryan via Hockliffe and Clipstone, and to the north of the town the excess water from the...
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  • November 1962 at Barton on Sea in Hampshire. Restoration of the Tower of Hockliffe Church, Bedfordshire, 1910 Replacement of the Powage Press after fire...
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  • Crafton, Cublington, Eggington, Great Billington, Grove, Heath and Reach, Hockliffe, Horton, Hollingdon, Ivinghoe, Ivinghoe Aston, Ledburn, Leedon, Little...
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  • WHSmith units were once Lavells. The headquarters was at Lavells House, Hockliffe Street, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, LU7 1JF. Although the company...
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    lost to Hockliffe, to which it was adjacent, in the 20th century. The "Little Chef" restaurant and Travelodge on the A5 are called "Hockliffe", though...
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    Hounslow Heath and Egham Hill Road Act 1831 (c.v)) Road from Dunstable to Hockliffe Act 1814 54 Geo. 3. c. cxxi 17 June 1814   Tadcaster Bridge and Hob Moor...
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    Robinson who published it in 'The Antiquary'. A few years later Mr. E. Hockliffe, the son-in-law of Sir Charles Robinson, offered the brooch as a loan...
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    1552–1973. White Crescent Press Ltd. ISBN 0-9502917-0-6. Sargeaunt, John & Hockliffe, Ernest (1925). A History of Bedford School. T. Fisher Unwin. 52°08′29″N...
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    motorway (formerly part of the A50) B527 unused B528 (defunct) A5 in Hockliffe A418 in Woburn Originally part of the A506 (later A50). Now part of the...
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    1739 13 Geo. 2. c. 9 19 March 1740 An Act for repairing the Road between Hockliffe, in the County of Bedford, and Stony Stratford, in the County of Buckingham...
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