Folkland

In the fictional world of the Middle Earth created by Tolkien, it means "province".

Under the Anglo-Saxon law, it means a land held under no charter, rather an ancient unwritten custom.

The Shire was divided into four quarters, the Farthings already referred to, North, South, East, and West; and there again each into a number of folklands, which still bore the names of some of the old leading families (...).