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Hockliffe

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 and B5704 roads.

Hockliffe
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The place

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 and B5704 roads.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Hockliffe

7 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Church of St Peter & All Saints, Battlesden

    The Church of St Peter & All Saints is a Grade I listed church in Battlesden, Bedfordshire, England. The small church was built in the 13th century with a simple layout of nave, chancel and south porch.

    2.7 km · church in Battlesden, Bedfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church of All Saints, Tilsworth

    Church of All Saints is a Grade I listed church in Tilsworth, Bedfordshire, England. It became a listed building on 3 February 1967.

    2.5 km · church in Tilsworth, Bedfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church of St John the Baptist, Stanbridge

    Church of St John the Baptist is a Grade I listed church in Stanbridge, Bedfordshire, England. It became a listed building on 3 February 1967.

    2.7 km · church in Stanbridge, Bedfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Chalgrave Castle

    Chalgrave Castle stood to the south of the large village of Toddington, Bedfordshire. This was a timber motte and bailey castle, constructed in two phases, built during the 11th century.

    3.6 km · castle in Bedfordshire with no visible remains · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Church of All Saints, Chalgrave

    The Church of All Saints is a Grade I listed church in Chalgrave, Bedfordshire, England. It became a listed building on 3 February 1967.

    3.6 km · church in Chalgrave, Bedfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    St Mary's Church, Potsgrove

    St Mary's Church is a redundant Anglican church in the village of Potsgrove, Bedfordshire. England.

    3.7 km · church in Potsgrove, Bedfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Eggington House

    Eggington House is the manor house of the village of Eggington situated near Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, England. The house is regarded as a very fine example of late 17th-century domestic architecture, and is a Grade II* listed building.

    2.3 km · country house in Eggington, Bedfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Hockliffe

Airports
London Luton (LTN), 16 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 52 km · London Stansted (STN), 57 km
Stations
Stanbridgeford railway station, 3.8 km
  • London → Hockliffe
    57 km · quickest by road, 1h 36m · £6–8
  • London, Essex → Hockliffe
    57 km · quickest by road, 1h 36m · £6–8
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Hockliffe
    108 km · quickest by road, 2h 14m · £12–15
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Hockliffe

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Hockliffe. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inIt's a major hub for the budget airlines easyJet, Ryanair and Wizz Air, and for charter flights by Tui.

From Wikivoyage: Luton, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    147 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    295 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    404 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    504 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    539 km

If you know how people move in Hockliffe – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Hockliffe

Hockliffe is 46 km from Brent, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Stanbridgevillage and civil parish in Bedfordshire, England, UK2.8 km
  • Potsgrovevillage and civil parish in Bedfordshire, UK2.9 km
  • Milton Bryanvillage and civil parish in Bedfordshire, England, UK3.7 km
  • Eggingtonvillage and civil parish in Bedfordshire, UK2.2 km
  • Tilsworthvillage and civil parish in Central Bedfordshire, Bedfordshire, England2.5 km
  • Chalgravevillage and civil parish in Bedfordshire, UK3.6 km