Toseland, Cambridgeshire

Toseland
Toseland Hall
Population	411 (2011 census)
OS grid reference	TL240629
Shire county	Cambridgeshire
Region	East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Cambridgeshire
Postcode district	PE19

The Methodist Church is located at the centre of Toseland with strong links to the main high street.

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.

In the 19th century Toseland experienced a reduction in mortality and the reason for this being described as:

"mortality decline in the late 19th century was mainly due to the reduction of very high infant mortality rates: the presence or absence of large number of infants dying before their first birthday had little effect on overall age structures".