Toft as a placename element is usually dated to the Viking Age by place-name historians.
[4] Placenames ending in -toft are usually of Old Norse derivation, topt meaning "site of a house".
Examples elsewhere include: Knaptoft, Leicestershire; Langtoft, East Riding of Yorkshire; Lowestoft, Suffolk; Scraptoft, Leicestershire; Sibbertoft, Northamptonshire; Stowlangtoft, Suffolk; Wibtoft, Warwickshire; Yelvertoft Northamptonshire and various places simply called Toft in the former Danelaw.
This typical Old Norse element allows an estimation of the extension of Scandinavian settlements in the Middle Ages.
Examples of -tot in Normandy include Lanquetot, Colletot, Caltot (Saint-Laurent-en-Caux), Hottot-les-Bagues, and Hotot-en-Auge.