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  2. 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 ...

  3. Furlong - Wikipedia

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    A description from 1675 states, "Dimensurator or Measuring Instrument whereof the mosts usual has been the Chain, and the common length for English Measures four Poles, as answering indifferently to the Englishs Mile and Acre, 10 such Chains in length making a Furlong, and 10 single square Chains an Acre, so that a square Mile contains 640 ...

  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. Square kilometre - Wikipedia

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    1 square mile = 2.5899 km 2 [4] 1 acre = about 0.004 047 km 2 [5] The symbol "km 2" means (km) 2, square kilometre or kilometre squared and not k ... Conversion of units;

  6. List of conversion factors - Wikipedia

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    Conversions between units in the metric system are ... Currently defined in US as 3 Statute miles, [3] ... ≡ 1 cda x 1 cda = 0.971 222 acre ≡ 3 930.395 625 m 2 ...

  7. 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 ...

  8. Template:Convert/list of units - Wikipedia

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    {{convert|100|lb|kg}} → 100 pounds (45 kg) The unit-codes should be treated as case-sensitive: {{convert|100|Mm|mm}} → 100 megametres (1.0 × 10 11 mm) The output of {{convert}} can display multiple converted units, if further unit-codes are specified after the second unnamed parameter (without the pipe separator). Typical combination ...

  9. Geographical mile - Wikipedia

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    Conversions 1 geographical mile in ... ~1.1528 mi or ~6,087 ft: The geographical mile is an international unit of length ... or 850 and 4-10ths of an acre". ...