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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. 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).

4. 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.

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. Composition of Yards and Perches - Wikipedia

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   The Composition of Yards and Perches (Latin: Compositio Ulnarum et Perticarum) or the Statute of Ells and Perches was a medieval English statute defining the length of the barleycorn, inch, foot, yard, and perch, as well as the area of the acre. Its date has been estimated at 1266–1303. [1]

7. McWhinneys Brick Cottage - Wikipedia

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   [1] The site on which the brick cottage is located was part of a larger parcel of land (1 acre (0.40 ha) 3 roods (33,000 sq ft; 3,000 m 2) 8 perches (200 m 2) - suburban portion 179, parish of North Brisbane) with a frontage to Leichhardt Street, purchased from the Crown in May 1860 by Patrick Byrne of Brisbane for the sum of £216. Almost ...

8. 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 ...

9. The Grange (home) - Wikipedia

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   The original purchaser from the Crown of the land that The Grange was to stand on was made in August, 1862 by J. Taylor who bought two adjoining allotments [3] which combined to an area of 1 acre 3 roods and 8 perches, with a 265 feet west facing frontage on Lydiard Street North, Soldiers Hill. These allotments, 11 & 12, had a depth of 265 feet ...