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A vergée (French pronunciation:, alternative spellings vergie, vrégie) is a unit of land area, a quarter of the old French arpent. The term derives from Latin virga (rod). [1] Compare French verge (yard). In the Channel Islands, it is a standard measure of land, but the statutory definition differs between the bailiwicks.
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
The vergée was also a quarter of a Normandy acre, and was equal to 40 square perches (1 Normandy acre = 160 square perches). The rood was an important measure in surveying on account of its easy conversion to acres. When referring to areas, rod is often found in old documents and has exactly the same meaning as rood. [3]
Land area In Guernsey is 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. [5] Money Between 1830 and 1956, Guernsey's four coin denominations, 1, 2, 4 and 8 doubles.
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
The chapel appears on the 1787 Duke of Richmond’s map of Guernsey by William Gardner on a plot of three Vergée (around 1.2 acres) planted with an apple orchard. The States of Guernsey bought the building and 12 perches of land (about 0.12 acre) in 1873 for £120 when it was being used as a cattle barn.
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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. Calonne-sur-la-Lys ( French pronunciation: [kalɔn syʁ la lis] , literally Calonne on the Lys ) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France .