Hockliffe, Bedfordshire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Hockliffe. You may be able to find further references to Hockliffe in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place Type of entry Source
Hockliffe parish Bartholomew
HOCKLIFFE a village and a parish Imperial

Travel writing

This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Hockliffe within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.

Traveller Section No. of Refs.
Daniel Defoe Appendix to the second volume 4
Thomas Pennant Towcester to Redborn 3
Arthur Young 1776 Tour from Essex to Shropshire 2
William Camden Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire 1

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place Mentioned in Travel Writing Mentioned in Historical Gazetteer
Battlesden 1 2
Eggington 0 2
Manshead 0 2
Tilsworth 1 3
Stanbridge 0 2
Chalgrave 0 2
Heath and Reach 0 2
Milton Bryan 0 2
Potsgrove 1 2
Leighton Buzzard 7 3
Billington 0 2
Grovebury 0 2
Toddington 3 2
Maiden Bower 2 2
Linslade 0 3
Woburn 15 2
Houghton Regis 0 2
Totternhoe 1 2
Grove 0 2
Tingrith 0 2

Names from historical writing

The following appear as names for Hockliffe. Follow the links for what the author actually said:

Name Author Source
HOCKCLIFF Thomas Pennant The Journey from Chester to London (London: Wilkie and Robinson, 1811).
HOCKLEY Daniel Defoe A tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain, divided into circuits or journies (London: JM Dent and Co, 1927).
Arthur Young Tours in England and Wales, selected from the Annals of Agriculture (London: London School of Economics, 1932).
HOCKLEY IN THE HOLE William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
Daniel Defoe A tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain, divided into circuits or journies (London: JM Dent and Co, 1927).
Thomas Pennant The Journey from Chester to London (London: Wilkie and Robinson, 1811).
HOCKLIFFE John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
OCCLEIE Thomas Pennant The Journey from Chester to London (London: Wilkie and Robinson, 1811).

NB: These variant names come from our collections of historical travel writing and descriptive gazetteers:

  • The above links take you to the first reference to this particular version of the name within a book of travel writing, or to the relevant gazetteer entry.
  • Some names may derive from research by antiquarian writers such as William Camden and Thomas Pennant into the Roman, Saxon and medieval names of places. Their claims are not always supported by modern place-name researchers.
  • References by travel writers to the place using its "normal" name are not included. Descriptive gazetteer entries are included only if the name does not appear anywhere else.