Toft village

Toft village

In England and Scotland, a toft village is a settlement comprising small and relatively closely packed farms (tofts) with the surrounding land owned and farmed by those who live in the village's buildings.

Placenames ending in "-toft" are usually of Norse language derivation, "toft" meaning ruin in Norse; examples are Habertoft, Huttoft, Knaptoft, Lowestoft, Newtoft, Scraptoft, Sibbertoft, Stowlangtoft, Wibtoft, Yelvertoft and various places simply called Toft.Fact|date=June 2007


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