Hockliffe / Hocclive / Hocgganclife / Hocheleia / Hockeclyff / Hockley / Hockley in the Hole / Occliffe

There is an entry for Hockliffe [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP9726/hockliffe/] [accessed 22 September 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The Victoria County History (Bedford, vol. 3, 1912) notes: "In 1291 the church was worth £8 [...] The chancel dates from the middle of the 14th century, and if the walls of the nave are of earlier date there is now nothing to show it. The tower is a 15th-century addition, and the porch is of the end of the same century [...] The font is octagonal, re-worked or modern." Not mentioned in Pevsner (1968 or 2002). The Parish web site [www.hockliffe.net/stnicholas/stnicholas.htm] [accessed 25 October 2011] states that the font is original, contemporary with the church. The font is of the type thta has a single volume, without demarkation between basin and base; it does have a plain octagonal lower base and a large plinth, also octagonal and plain.