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  2. Rod (unit) - Wikipedia

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    As a unit of area, a square perch (the perch being standardized to equal 16 + 1 ⁄ 2 feet, or 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 yards) is equal to a square rod, 30 + 1 ⁄ 4 square yards (25.29 square metres) or 1 ⁄ 160 acre. There are 40 square perches to a rood (for example a rectangular area of 40 rods times one rod), and 160 square perches to an acre (for ...

  3. Vergée - Wikipedia

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    In French North America, it was also equal to 25 square perches, but the royal perch of 18 feet was used, yielding a vergée of 8100 square feet (854.7 m 2) In Guernsey, a vergée (Guernésiais: vergie) is 17,640 square feet (1,639 m 2). It is 40 (square) Guernsey perches. A Guernsey perch (also spelt perque) is 21 feet by 21 feet. [1] [2]

  4. Rood (unit) - Wikipedia

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    A rectangle that is one furlong (i.e., 10 chains, or 40 rods) in length and one rod in width is one rood in area, as is any space comprising 40 perches (a perch being one square rod). The vergée was also a quarter of a Normandy acre, and was equal to 40 square perches (1 Normandy acre = 160 square perches).

  5. Traditional French units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    A square 5 perches on each side, or one quarter of an acre. acre, or arpent carré: 48 400 ~5107 m 2 ~6108 sq yd, or ~1.262 acres The French acre is a square 10 perches (one arpent) on each side. (Does not exactly correspond to the English acre, which is defined as 43 560 square feet.) North America: perche du roi carrée: 324 ~34.19 m 2 ~40.89 ...

  6. Acre - Wikipedia

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    One acre equals 1 ⁄ 640 (0.0015625) square mile, 4,840 square yards, 43,560 square feet, [2] or about 4,047 square metres (0.4047 hectares) (see below).While all modern variants of the acre contain 4,840 square yards, there are alternative definitions of a yard, so the exact size of an acre depends upon the particular yard on which it is based.

  7. 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 ...

  8. Tamil units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    1 தாக்கு (thakku) = 7.56 சதுர அடி (Sq. ft) In Jaffna, Sri Lanka For House property 1 Parappu = 1 Lacham = 10 Perches; 16 Parappu = 1 Acre; Varaku Culture (V.C.) 18 kulies = 1 lacham; 16 lachams = 1 acre; Paddy Culture (P.C.) 12 kulies = 1 lacham; 24 lachams = 1 acre

  9. Talk:Acre - Wikipedia

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    One perch by one furlong is a quarter of an acre. Four perches ... and it says that a plot of land is 10.21 Acres, can I convert ... the math is very simple 1 acre ...