Toft, Lincolnshire

Toft
Field in Toft
Eastern portal of Toft Tunnel[1]
Toft  Toft shown within Lincolnshire
Population	333 (2011)
OS grid reference	TF069172
– London	90 mi (140 km)  S
Civil parish	Toft with Lound and Manthorpe
District	South Kesteven
Shire county	Lincolnshire
Region	East Midlands
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Bourne
Postcode district	PE10
Dialling code	01778
Police	Lincolnshire
Fire	Lincolnshire
Ambulance	East Midlands
EU Parliament	East Midlands
UK Parliament	Grantham and Stamford
List of places UK England Lincolnshire

Coordinates: 52°44′32″N 0°24′54″W / 52.7423°N 0.4151°W

Toft is a small village in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated approximately 2 miles (3 km) south-west from Bourne on the A6121. Toft is part of the civil parish of Toft with Lound and Manthorpe.^[2] The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 333.^[3]

The village gave its name to the Toft Tunnel on the former Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway (closed in 1959), which ran about 1 mile (1.6 km) to the north. This was the only tunnel on that railway, which ran for the most part over the Fens. The tunnel is actually in Lound, though still in the parish. It is now managed as a nature reserve^[4]

Toft Hotel Golf Course is on the southern edge of the village. The East Glen river flows through the village, also to the south.

The north of the parish includes the Deserted medieval village of Bowthorpe, now a single farm, which gives its name to the Bowthorpe Oak.^[5]

References

1. Squires, Stewart; Hollamby, Ken, eds. (2009). Building a Railway: Bourne to Saxby. Lincoln Record Society. ISBN 978-0-9015038-62.
2. "Toft cum Lound and Manthorpe". Lincolnshire Parish Councils | South Kesteven. Lincolnshire county council. Retrieved 20 May 2013.
3. "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Offuice for National Statistics. Retrieved 23 May 2016.
4. Smith, Jonathan (1997). "A short history of Toft Tunnel". LWT Nature Reserves. Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust. Retrieved 20 May 2013.
5. Historic England. "Bowthorpe (348176)". PastScape. Retrieved 20 May 2013.

External links

• Media related to Toft, Lincolnshire at Wikimedia Commons
• Cork, Sue (2013). A History of Manthorpe, Toft and Lound (A4 comb bound). Bantry House, Manthorpe, tel [phone]: Witham-on-the-Hill Historical Society. Retrieved 20 May 2013.
• "Toft and Lound". Villages around Bourne. Rex Needle. 1997. Retrieved 20 May 2013.
• "History of Toft, in South Kesteven and Lincolnshire". A Vision of Britain through Time. GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 20 May 2013.