Description
Toft, a parish in Cambridgeshire, 3 1/2 miles from Old North Road station on the L. & N.W.R., and 6 WSW of Cambridge. It has a post office under Cambridge; money order and telegraph office, Bourn. Acreage, 1285; population of the civil parish, 217; of the ecclesiastical, with Caldecote, 309. The living is a rectory, united with Caldecote, in the diocese of Ely; gross value, £330 with residence. Patron, Christ's College, Cambridge. The church is an ancient edifice of stone in the Perpendicular style. The tower fell in 1890, but has been rebuilt.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
