Toft, Lincolnshire
| Toft | |
| Lincolnshire | |
|---|---|
 Field in Toft | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TF069172 |
| Location: | 52°44’32"N, 0°24’54"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 333 (2011) |
| Post town: | Bourne |
| Postcode: | PE10 |
| Dialling code: | 01778 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | South Kesteven |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Grantham and Stamford |
Toft is a small village in Kesteven, the south-western part of Lincolnshire, about two miles south-west of Bourne on the A6121.
.jpg)
The village gives its name to the Toft Tunnel on the former Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway, which ran about a mile to the north. This tunnel (which closed in 1959) was the only tunnel on that railway, which ran for the most part over the flat Fenland.
The tunnel is today managed as a nature reserve[1]
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 mediæval village of Bowthorpe, now a single farm, which gives its name to the Bowthorpe Oak, perhaps Britain's oldest oak tree with an estimated age of over 1,000 years and a girth of 40 feet 4 inches.[2]
Outside links
 |
("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Toft, Lincolnshire) |
- Cork, Sue (2013) (A4 comb bound). A History of Manthorpe, Toft and Lound. Bantry House, Manthorpe, tel 01778 590204: Witham-on-the-Hill Historical Society. http://parishes.lincolnshire.gov.uk/Files/Parish/672/A_History_of_the_Toft_cum_Lound_and_Manthorpe_Parish.pdf. Retrieved 20 May 2013.
- "Toft and Lound". Villages around Bourne. Rex Needle. 1997. http://homepages.which.net/~rex/bourne/toft.htm. Retrieved 20 May 2013.
- Toft on Vision of Britain
References
- ↑ @{{cite web|last=Smith|first=Jonathan|title=A short history of Toft Tunnel|url=http://lincstrust.org.uk/reserves/nr/reserve.php?mapref=101%7Cwork=LWT Nature Reserves|publisher=Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust]
- ↑ National Monuments Record: No. 348176 – Bowthorpe