English Place-name Society

Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Tofts

Early-attested site in the Parish of Elwick and Elwick Hall

Historical Forms

  • Toftes 1198×1204 GD
  • toftes 1266 Elemos
  • lez toftes 1379 Elemos
  • pastura del toftis c.1250 Ct
  • vna placia t're de toft' qd Drewe quond' tenuit 1250 ib
  • Tofts 1728 Hud 1767 Salvin
  • Bruntofts, Tofts 1824 ib
  • Tofts Homestead 1839 TA

Etymology

'Building sites, house plots', ON , ME  toft.