Land measures

[Cazza47]

I have been to the archives today and was looking at a map from 1846. It showed apportionment of the rent charge in lieu of tithes. It listed fields in the area and under the title 'quantities in statute measure' there was 3 columns of numbers -- A -- R -- P, could anyone tell me what these letters represent please? I presume it shows the size of the field but have no idea what these letters are.
Carol

[Koromo]

It's Acres, Roods and Perches, isn't it?

 


Added:  Er ... there are 40 square perches to a rood, and 160 square perches to an acre.

[Little Nell]

Acres, rods and perches or poles

1 acre = 4840 sq yards
1 rod or perch/pole = 5 1/2 yards or 30 1/4 sq yards

Nell

[Cazza47]

I have heard of acres but rods, perches and poles sound like they belong on a fishing site!!!
Thank you both very much.
Carol

[GrahamSimons]

These measures were printed on the back cover of our exercise books in primary school in the 1950s......

[GFHWP]

These measures were printed on the back cover of our exercise books in primary school in the 1950s......

Along with other stuff such as stones, lbs and oz, (weight) £ s d (money) and furlongs and chains, (distance)  A chain was  I recall 22yds long or 66feet. Something still used today as that is the length of a cricket pitch.

[Berlin-Bob]

There is a category for Weights & Measures in the
RootsChat Reference => Lexicon ^{(click here)}
with a couple of topics about land measurements and imperial measurements.

These include discussions and external links.

regards,
Bob

[Guy Etchells]

Note as with many things measurements were not standardised in the past.
An acre for instance was not the same in different parts of the country in medieval times.

Even the time of day varied across the UK prior to the railway era.
Cheers
Guy

[Berlin-Bob]

Hi Guy,

while we're on the subject (of standards) .... what about height - Was that a standard measurement in Britain ?

I saw a query on a german forum about this and ended up finding a book where heights at different times in all the different german states were listed
They all talked of "Foot" (often in connection with the minimum height for soldiers) but each state had a different measurement for it. So someone could be a soldier in one state but was too small in another state.

regards,
Bob

added: table of 'foot' (Fuß) measurements; 2nd column is length in metres.
Note that the english 'foot' is 0.964 of a viennese 'foot' (Wiener Fuß)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_%28unit%29#Pre-1959