Toseland, Cambridgeshire
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| Toseland | |
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 Toseland Hall | |
  Toseland Location within Cambridgeshire | |
| Population | 111 (2011. Cambridgeshire Insight[1]) |
| OS grid reference | TL232625 |
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| District | |
| Shire county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | ST NEOTS |
| Postcode district | PE19 |
| Dialling code | 01480 |
| Police | Cambridgeshire |
| Fire | Cambridgeshire |
| Ambulance | East of England |
| UK Parliament | |
Toseland is a village and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England.[2] It is in Huntingdonshire which is a non-metropolitan district of Cambridgeshire and a historic county of England. Nearby parishes within Cambridgeshire include Yelling, Graveley, Great Paxton and St Agnes.[3]
Social status
The name Toseland is Scandinavian and has connections to the Old Norse word lundr, translated as a grove.[4][5]
Toseland gave its name to one of the four hundreds of Huntingdonshire. Gazetteer John Marius Wilson defined Toseland as:
"a parish and a hundred in Hunts. The parish lies 3¼ miles NE of St. Neots r. station, and is in St. Neots district. Post town, St. Neots. Acres, 1,320. Real property, £1,585. Pop., 217. Houses, 44. The property is divided among a few. The manor-house is a handsome ancient edifice, now occupied by a farmer".[6]
A historic census carried out in 1831 detailed the categorisation of status within occupation in the parish. From the highest to the lowest: Employers, Middling Sorts, Labourers & Servants and others; notably most of the population was Labourers.[7]
Landmarks
The parish church of St Michael (St Mary in earlier records) dates to the 12th century and is Grade II* listed.[8] Toseland Hall is a 17th-century Grade II* listed manor house to the west of the village centre, built from brick with a tiled roof.[9][10] The Manor is two storeys high and contains attics, and the moulded bricks are constructed with a geometric pattern.[11] It was built by Nicholas Luke around 1600 who at the time was also the lord of the manor, which has been owned by various prominent figures such as the Dean of Ely in 1624.[12] During the 1881 census the property was occupied by Alfred Maine who was a farmer who owned more than 350 acres of land, which since then has been used for agricultural purposes such as cultivating crops.[13]
Geography
The 1900 6-inch Ordnance Survey map showed the parish as having an area of 1342.248 acres.[14] Toseland is situated in the county of Cambridgeshire located in the East of England. The parish is approximately 58 m (190 ft) above the sea level; Toseland's post code (PE19) is categorised as non-residential.[15] Domestic gardens use up most of the land area compared to domestic, non-domestic buildings and roads, taking up approximately 102.13 m2 in thousands as shown by the enhanced base map of UK areas in 2005.[16]
