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  2. 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]

  3. Traditional French units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    vergée: 12 100 ~1277 m 2 ~1527 sq yd 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

  4. Rood (unit) - Wikipedia

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    Rood is an English unit of area equal to one quarter of an acre [2] or 10,890 square feet, exactly 1,011.7141056 m 2. 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).

  5. Rod (unit) - Wikipedia

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    The rod is useful as a unit of length because integer multiples of it can form one acre of square measure (area). The 'perfect acre' [2] is a rectangular area of 43,560 square feet, bounded by sides 660 feet (a furlong) long and 66 feet (a chain) wide (220 yards by 22 yards) or, equivalently, 40 rods by 4 rods. An acre is therefore 160 square ...

  6. Weights and Measures Act (Canada) - Wikipedia

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    640 acres 2.589988110336 km 2: acre: acre: 4,840 sq yd 4,046.856422 m 2: square rod perche carrée: 30 + 1 ⁄ 4 sq yd 25.29285264 m 2: square yard yard carré or verge carrée: a superficial area equal to that of a square each side of which measures one yard 8361.2736 cm 2: square foot pied carré: 1 ⁄ 9 sq yd 929.0304 cm 2: square inch ...

  7. Waterfront (St Helier) - Wikipedia

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    The Waterfront Centre in 2008. The Waterfront (Jèrriais: Quartchi du Hâvre, French: Quartier du Havre) is a district of St Helier in the island of Jersey. It is built on reclaimed land to the west of the Albert Pier and to the south of the Esplanade, however the definition is ambiguous and can be extended to cover older parts of the town

  8. 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.

  9. Le Verger - Wikipedia

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    1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km 2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. Le Verger ( French pronunciation: [lə vɛʁʒe] ; Breton : Gwerzher ) is a commune in the Ille-et-Vilaine department of Brittany in northwestern France .