Nearby places are Heath and Reach, Eggington, Stanbridge, Battlesden, Toddington, Tebworth and Tilsworth.

The ward includes the villages of Heath and Reach, Hockliffe, Eggington, Stanbridge, Tilsworth, Tebworth and Wingrave.

During the Second World War a Czechoslovak military intelligence wireless transmission station was situated just outside Hockliffe.

[7] Hockliffe is the birthplace of Arthur Henry Neumann (1850–1907), a British explorer, hunter, soldier and travel writer, famous for his exploits in Equatorial East Africa at the end of the 19th century.

In 1898, he published Elephant Hunting In East Equatorial Africa that contained descriptions of his childhood in Hockliffe.