1 gen 1653 anni - toft

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A very common place-name element; originally a homestead or dwelling-house. The meaning is implicit in a sequence of deeds for Stockeld in 1314-21 (YRS69/158). It remained in use in the compound ‘toftstead’ as the site of a house: 1524 <i>An other toftestede which I have in Lownd and the land belonging therto,</i> Clarborough (SS70/180); 1609 <i>one little house and a toft stead lying at the east side of the same cottage,</i> South Cave (Kaner225); 1653 <i>unto John Lamm my sonne one toftlande ... to Peter Lamm, my sonne, one toftsteade</i>, Brayton (YRS47/100). ‘Toft’ itself may eventually have come to mean a small field: 1555 <i>I ... giue the said house, kylne, toft and croft ... to my son,</i> Church Fenton (Th27/44); 1578-9 <i>I give the said house, garth & tofte ... to Francise Willson my sone</i>; 1587 <i>my hempgarth & ij toftes in the feilde</i>, South Cave (Kaner105,140).

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