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Tofth

Built-Up Area: Toft
Parish/Community: Toft
District/Borough: South Cambridgeshire
County: Cambridgeshire
Region: Eastern

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 52°11'12"N 0°0'41"W
Eastings/Northings: 536039, 256151
OS Grid: TL360561
Mapcode Local: GBR K5Z.XK9
Mapcode Global: VHGMR.R99F

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Toft within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Toft in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Toft.-- par., Cambridgeshire, 4 miles SE. of Caxton and 6 miles SW. of Cambridge, 1242 ac., pop. 256; P.O.

Toft in the Domesday Book

A village in Longstowe hundred, in the county of Cambridgeshire.

Three manors recorded in Domesday.

1st Manor
- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Edeva the fair
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Count Alan
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Count Alan
- Taxable Value: 2 ¹⁄₄ geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £2 in 1066; £3 in 1070; £4 in 1086
- Households: 5 villagers; 2 cottagers; 2 slaves
- Plough Teams: 1 lord's plough; 4 men's ploughs (4 plough lands)
- Meadow: 2 ploughs
2nd Manor
- Overlords in 1066: King Edward; Abbey of Ely St Etheldreda
- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Man, one
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Picot of Cambridge
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: 2 men-at-arms (subinfeudated)
- Taxable Value: 1 ⁵⁄₈ geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £6 in 1066; £1 in 1070; £4 in 1086
- Households: 2 villagers; 6 cottagers
- Plough Teams: 1 lord's plough; 1 men's plough (4 plough lands)
- Meadow: 1 ¹⁄₂ ploughs
3rd Manor
- Overlord in 1066: Abbey of Ely St Etheldreda
- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Freemen, five
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Erchenger the baker
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Erchenger the baker
- Taxable Value: 1 geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £3 in 1066; 10 shillings in 1070; £2 in 1086
- Households: 1 villager; 5 cottagers
- Plough Teams: 1 men's plough (2 plough lands)
- Meadow: ¹⁄₂ plough

British Place Names

Toft, Cambridgeshire

Toft is a village in Cambridgeshire

Toft in historic gazetteers

Toft in the Domesday Book