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Toseland, Cambridgeshire

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Toseland
Toseland Hall
OS grid referenceTL240629
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
List of places
UK
England
Cambridgeshire

Toseland is a village in the English county of Cambridgeshire. It is located within the Huntingdonshire District Council, the nearest major town being St Neots. It is within 15 miles of Hemingford Grey, the former home of Lucy M. Boston, who used the name extensively in her Green Knowe books, inventing the imaginary placenames "Fen Toseland", "Toseland St Agnes" and "Toseland Gunning", and using it as a recurring first name in many generations of the same family. There are various farms situated in the vicinity of Toseland such as East Farm, Green Farm, Home Farm at the heart of the village.

Toseland got its name from Tolis Grove, which means Land of Tolis, a Viking that originally settled the area. before the town of St Neots grew, Toseland was the centre of politics for the Toseland Hundred, including the Paxtons, Yelling and Gravely.