[Magdalen] For those of us US'ers (& maybe even Canadians)...

[Sibyl Smirl]

Anyone who knows horse racing knows furlongs.


On 7/30/16 4:17 PM, Roger Stokes wrote:
> On 30/07/2016 21:33, M J _Mike_ Logsdon wrote:
>> I learned a surveyor's measurement term that I still laugh about:
>> chain. A chain is 66 feet. Gotta love that. I can only imagine how it
>> was invented (and no, I haven't looked it up yet, so there could be
>> something truly smart about it, and most likely is). "Hey, Boyd, you
>> got something to measure with?" "Got a length chain here." "How long
>> is it?" "'Bout 66 feet." "That'll do."
>
> Did you come across furlongs as well?  The name derives from "furrow
> long" and is 10 chains. An acre is the size of a rectangle a furlong by
> a chain. I have seen facsimiles of old maps with distances in miles and
> chains.  There are 100 links in a chain so each link is just under 8
> inches 25 links to the rod, pole or perch (they are interchangeable
> terms). A chain is the distance between the wickets on a cricket pitch.
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> Roger
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