| Country: | England |
| Coordinates: | 52.7423°N -0.4151°W |
| Official Name: | Toft |
| Static Image Name: | Field with poppies, Toft, Lincolnshire.jpg |
| Static Image Alt: | Cornfield, behind hedgerow and two wooden 5-bar gates. The wheat is suffused with poppies. The picture is framed by tall tees in the hedgerow on either side of the gate, and woodland beyond the field. A blue sky dotted with fluffy white clouds looks over everything. |
| Static Image Caption: | Field in Toft |
| Static Image 2 Name: | Toft Tunnel, Lincolnshire (geograph 3136755).jpg |
| Static Image 2 Alt: | Tunnel mouth and retaining walls in blue engineering brick, surrounded by trees and vegetation. The dark entrance is blocked by a fence of vertical metal palings with pointed tops. |
| Static Image 2 Caption: | Eastern portal of Toft Tunnel[1] |
| Population: | 333 |
| Population Ref: | (2011) |
| Civil Parish: | Toft with Lound and Manthorpe |
| Shire District: | South Kesteven |
| Shire County: | Lincolnshire |
| Region: | East Midlands |
| Constituency Westminster: | Grantham and Stamford |
| Post Town: | Bourne |
| Postcode District: | PE10 |
| Postcode Area: | PE |
| Dial Code: | 01778 |
| Os Grid Reference: | TF069172 |
| Map Type: | Lincolnshire |
| London Distance Mi: | 90 |
| London Direction: | S |
Toft is a small village in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated approximately 2miles south-west from Bourne on the A6121. Toft is part of the civil parish of Toft with Lound and Manthorpe.[2] The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 333.[3]
The village gave its name to the Toft Tunnel on the former Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway (closed in 1959), which ran about 1miles to the north. This was the only tunnel on that railway, which ran for the most part over the Fens. The tunnel is actually in Lound, though still in the parish. It is now managed as a nature reserve[4]
Toft Hotel Golf Course is on the southern edge of the village. The East Glen river flows through the village, also to the south.
The north of the parish includes the deserted medieval village of Bowthorpe, now a single farm, which gives its name to the Bowthorpe Oak.[5] Although there is no church today, some books about the history of Crowland Abbey say that the patronage of the church in Toft was gifted to the Abbey on the occasion of the start of its re-build in 1113 following the devastating fire of 1091.