Croft may refer to:
Occupations
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Croft (land)
A croft is a traditional Scottish term for a fenced or enclosed area of land, usually small and arable, and usually, but not always, with a crofter's dwelling thereon. A crofter is one who has tenure and use of the land, typically as a tenan ...
, a small area of land, often with a crofter's dwelling
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Crofting
Crofting (Scottish Gaelic: ') is a form of land tenure and small-scale food production peculiar to the Scottish Highlands, the islands of Scotland, and formerly on the Isle of Man. Within the 19th-century townships, individual crofts were est ...
, small-scale food production
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Bleachfield
A bleachfield or bleaching green was an open area used for spreading cloth on the ground to be purified and whitened by the action of the sunlight. Bleaching fields were usually found in and around mill towns in Great Britain and were an integral ...
, an open space used for the bleaching of fabric, also called a croft
Locations
In the United Kingdom
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Croft, Cheshire
Croft is a village and civil parish in Borough of Warrington, Cheshire, England, about four miles north of Warrington town centre. At the 2001 census it had a population of 2,920. It is a semi-rural, residential district.
Geography
Within the ...
, in the Borough of Warrington
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Croft, Leicestershire
Croft is a village and civil parish in the Blaby (district), Blaby district of Leicestershire, off the Fosse Way, straddling the River Soar. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 1,639.
Geography
The village is about south ...
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Croft, Lincolnshire
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Croft, Herefordshire
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Croft Castle
Croft Castle is a English country house, country house in the village of Croft, Herefordshire, Croft, Herefordshire, England. Owned by the Croft family since 1085, the castle and estate passed out of their hands in the 18th century, before bei ...
, Herefordshire
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Croft-on-Tees, North Yorkshire
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Croft (Aberdeenshire castle), a former keep in Scotland
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The Croft, a listed house in Totteridge, Barnet
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Croft Circuit
Croft Circuit is a motor racing circuit located near Dalton-on-Tees in North Yorkshire, England. The tarmac circuit is long and is based on the lands of an airfield, but has long since moved on from being a basic airfield circuit. The circuit ...
, a motor racing circuit in northeast England
In the United States
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Croft, California, in
El Dorado County
El Dorado County (; ''El Dorado'', Spanish language, Spanish for "The Golden ne), officially the County of El Dorado, is a List of counties in California, county located in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 United States census, ...
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Croft, Kansas
People
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Croft (surname)
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Crofts (surname)
See also
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Crofts End, Bristol
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Crofton, Cumbria
Crofton is an area of Thursby, Cumberland district of Cumbria, England. It is west-southwest of Carlisle. In 1870-72 the township had a population of 105.
Historically a part of Cumberland, Crofton was one of three small townships in the cen ...
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Crofton, British Columbia
Crofton is a small west coast town within the District of North Cowichan of southern Vancouver Island in British Columbia, east of BC Highway 1 about north of Victoria.
Early settlers
In the mid-1800s, several families obtained preemptions ...
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Ashcroft (disambiguation)
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Undercroft
An undercroft is traditionally a cellar or storage room, often brick-lined and Vault (architecture), vaulted, and used for storage in buildings since medieval times. In modern usage, an undercroft is generally a ground (street-level) area whi ...
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