township

As a noun township

is the territory of a town; a subdivision of a county.

As a proper noun Shitlington is

a former township of Yorkshire, England, later renamed Sitlington.

As nouns the difference between township and crofting

is that township is the territory of a town; a subdivision of a county while crofting is a form of land tenure and small-scale food production, unique to the Highlands and islands of Scotland, in which individual crofts are established on the better land while a large area of poor-quality hill ground is shared by all the crofters of the township for grazing.