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2. Rod (unit) - Wikipedia

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   The rod, perch, or pole (sometimes also lug) is a surveyor's tool [1] and unit of length of various historical definitions. In British imperial and US customary units, it is defined as 16 + 1 ⁄ 2 feet, equal to exactly 1 ⁄ 320 of a mile, or 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 yards (a quarter of a surveyor's chain), and is exactly 5.0292 meters.

3. Unit of length - Wikipedia

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   Determination of the rod, using the length of the left foot of 16 randomly chosen people coming from church service. Surveyors in the United States continue to use: chain (22 yards, or 20.1168 m) rod (also called pole or perch) (quarter of a chain, 5 1 ⁄ 2 yards, or 5.0292 m)

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. Talk:Rod (unit) - Wikipedia

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   Seems the value of a perch varied from 18-24' in the 1300's, and even in 1820, was between 16.5 and 25'. See the talk page at perch (area).I feel it would serve better to move the perch length info to a unified perch page that encompasses both length and area definitions, reflecting at least 600 years of use, and perhaps even explaining how one got to include the other, with a link here to ...

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7. Gunter's chain - Wikipedia

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   The surveyor is assisted by a chainman. A ranging rod (usually a prominently coloured wooden pole) is placed in the ground at the destination point. Starting at the originating point the chain is laid out towards the ranging rod, and the surveyor then directs the chainman to make the chain perfectly straight and pointing directly at the ranging ...

8. Acre - Wikipedia

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   A perch is equal to a square rod (1 square rod is 0.00625 acre) 4 roods; A furlong by a chain (furlong 220 yards, chain 22 yards) 40 rods by 4 rods, 160 rods 2 (historically fencing was often sold in 40 rod lengths [49]) 1 ⁄ 640 (0.0015625) square mile (1 square mile is equal to 640 acres)

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