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Cliff is the abbreviation of Clifford.
Ford is a wetland next to a hill or mountain.
Huylebroeck is medieval Dutch.
Huylebroeck = huyl + broeck = owl + wetland.
The word broeck is derived from the Medieval Dutch word bruoh which means land broken by water.
The word broek is still used for the area next to a river that is flooded when the river is high, to prevent that the water will run over the dike at a random place.
Pronounce as Hullebrook with long u, Spanish r, and short oo, and with the stress on the first syllable.
