Vartofta

Vartofta was a hundred in eastern Västergötland, extending through the countryside east of Falköping. Its communities shared rights in woodland: a common is mentioned as early as 1294, when the lawman Bengt gave farms rights in it. The hundred court dealt with disputes concerning such land. By the eighteenth century the district had separate court areas at Leaby and Slättäng, where the meeting place also drew people to the inn and market.