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"TOFT is a parish, 4½ miles north-by-east from Old North Road station on the Bedford and Cambridge branch of the London, Midland and Scottish railway, about 6½ south-west from Cambridge and about 10 north from Royston, in the hundred of Longstowe, petty sessional division of Caxton, union of Caxton and Arrington, county court district of Cambridge, rural deanery of Bourn and archdeaconry and diocese of Ely."
"The soil is heavy clay subsoil, granite and gault. The crops are wheat, barley and beans and a large amount of pasture. The area is 1,285 acres; the population in 1921 was 205 in the civil and 366 in the ecclesiastical parish.."
[Kelly's Directory - Cambridgeshire - 1929]
The Monumental Inscriptions in the graveyard of St. Andrew for the years 1747-1978 are recorded in the Cambridge Records Office and are available, on microfiche, from the Cambridgeshire Family History Society Bookstall.
The Census Records from 1841-1891 can be found in the Cambridge Record Office. In addition the 1851 Census for Toft is available in full transcript form, on microfiche, from the Cambridgeshire Family History Society Bookstall.
"The church of St. Andrew, beautifully situated, is an ancient edifice of stone, in the Perpendicular style, consisting of large and handsome chancel, nave of five bays, aisles and south porch: the chancel retains a small piscina and two aumbries, and in the south aisle is a niche and another piscina: the tower fell in 1890 while being pulled down, and was rebuilt in 1894 at a cost of £600: the nave arcade and tower arch are good examples of Perpendicular work, and the nave has a magnificent roof, with ornamented tie beams: there are some ancient benches and a plain octagonal font: in the church are memorials to the family of Eversden of Eversden: it was thoroughly restored in 1863, and has 200 sittings: in 1899 the bells were rehung at the expense of the Rev. T. Orbell M.A. then rector: the organ is a memorial to parishioners who fell in the Great War, 1914-18: in 1906 all the windows were reglazed and the walls of the chancel richly painted. The register dates from the year 1539."
"There is a small Primitive Methodist chapel here, built in 1862. "
[Kelly's Directory - Cambridgeshire - 1929]
Toft, St. Andrew: The original registers are at the church from 1539. Microfilm copies of the registers for baptisms, marriages and burials 1577-1908 for the years 1539-1875 reside in the Cambridge Record Office. Indexed transcripts for baptisms 1539-1917, marriages 1539-11916 and burials 1540-60, 1570-1918 also reside in the Cambridge Record Office. The Bishop's Transcripts for the years 1599-1642, 1663-75, 1702 and 1716-1873 can be found in the Cambridge University Library.
Primitive Methodist Church: Records exist for the Cambridge Primitive Circuit and Cambridge Primitive Second Circuit both of which Toft is part.
"A village library was built in 1913 by the Preston trustees. Eversden's charity of £2 yearly is distributed in bread. The land is all freehold. Toft Manor, the property and residence of G.M. Macfarlane-Grieve esq. is built of flint faced with knopped flint with stone dressings, and is one of the very few specimens of this style of architecture to be found in the county."
[Kelly's Directory - Cambridgeshire - 1929]
Land Tax: records were compiled afresh each year and contain the names of owners and occupiers in each parish, but usually there is no address or place name. These records reside in the Cambridge Record Office for the years 1798 (on microfilm), 1829-32 and 1946-48.
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