Toft village

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In England and Scotland a toft village is a settlement comprising small 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, examples are Habertoft, Huttoft, Knaptoft, Lowestoft, Newtoft, Scraptoft, Sibbertoft, Wibtoft, Yelvertoft and various places simply called Toft.

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