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  2. Irish measure - Wikipedia

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    The Irish acre or plantation acre measured one Irish chain by one Irish furlong, or 4 Irish perches by 40, or 7840 square yards: approximately 0.66 hectares or 1.62 statute acres. [54] The Lancashire acre around the Solway Firth and the Churchland acre in Yorkshire were the same size, which Frederic Seebohm in 1914 connected to the erw of Gwent ...

  3. English units - Wikipedia

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    In England an acre was 4,840 square yards (4,050 m 2), in Scotland 6,150 square yards (5,140 m 2) and in Ireland 7,840 square yards (6,560 m 2). It is a Saxon unit, meaning "field". Bovate: 6 ha: The area that one ox can plough in a single year (also called an oxgang). Approximately 15 acres or one eighth of a carucate. Virgate: 12 ha

  4. Chain (unit) - Wikipedia

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    Respectively, these square divisions of land are approximately 80 chains (one mile or 1.6 km), 40 chains (half a mile or 800 m), and 20 chains (a quarter mile or 400 m) on a side. The chain is still used in agriculture: measuring wheels with a circumference of 0.1 chain (diameter ≈ 2.1 ft or 64 cm) are still readily available in Canada and ...

  5. Section (United States land surveying) - Wikipedia

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    The primary grid pattern is of quarter sections (1 ⁄ 2 mi × 1 ⁄ 2 mi (800 m × 800 m)). In U.S. land surveying under the Public Land Survey System (PLSS), a section is an area nominally one square mile (2.6 square kilometers), containing 640 acres (260 hectares), with 36 sections making up one survey township on a rectangular grid. [1]

  6. Geography of Jamaica - Wikipedia

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    For a distance of over 3 kilometres (1.9 mi), the crest of the ridge exceeds 1,800 metres (5,900 ft). [1] The highest point is Blue Mountain Peak at 2,256 metres (7,402 ft). [ 1 ] The Blue Mountains rise to these elevations from the coastal plain in the space of about 16 kilometres (9.9 mi), thus producing one of the steepest general gradients ...

  7. League (unit) - Wikipedia

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    Legua nautica (nautical league): Between 1400 and 1600 the Spanish nautical league was equal to four Roman miles of 4,842 feet, making it 19,368 feet (5,903 metres or 3.1876 modern nautical miles). However, the accepted number of Spanish nautical leagues to a degree varied between 14 1/6 to 16 2/3, so in actual practice the length of a Spanish ...

  8. List of city squares by size - Wikipedia

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    City square City Country Area Dimensions, notes Year Photo Ref (m 2) [1] (ft 2) ; Xinghai Square: Dalian China 1,760,000 18,900,000: Commemorates the centenary of the founding of the city

  9. List of U.S. states and territories by area - Wikipedia

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    This is a complete list of all 50 U.S. states, its federal district (Washington, D.C.) and its major territories ordered by total area, land area and water area. [1] The water area includes inland waters, coastal waters, the Great Lakes and territorial waters.