Tosse

Tosse lies in the coastal country of Maremne, between the Adour and the sandy shores of the Landes. Its old church of Saint Sever and the seat of the local lord made it a centre of the viscounty of Maremne. A court also sat here, giving the village judicial importance among its neighbours. Fields and woodland surrounded a settlement whose standing rested on these religious, seigneurial and legal institutions.