Toft
Toft , noun
[Old English toft a knoll; akin to LG. toft a field hedged in, not far from a house, Icelandic topt a green knoll, grassy place, place marked out for a house, Danish toft.]
1.
A knoll or hill. [Obsolete]
A tower on a toft.
2.
A grove of trees; also, a plain. [Provincial English]
3.
(O. Eng. Law) A place where a messuage has once stood; the site of a burnt or decayed house.