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Rood (unit)

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A rood is a historic English and international inch-pound measure of area, as well as an archaic English measure of length. [1]

42 relations: Acre, Bedford School, Blaenffos, Bolton Street Memorial Park, Bulwer, Queensland, Christ's College, Christchurch, Clonmethan, Eliza's Cottage, Elizur Holyoke, English units, Foot (unit), Forests Commission Victoria, Frauenberg, Rhineland-Palatinate, Great Famine (Ireland), Grumbla, Hectare, Imperial and US customary measurement systems, Imperial units, Irish measure, List of obsolete units of measurement, Museum of East Anglian Life, Northfield Allotments, Or, Ordnance Survey Great Britain County Series, Quarter acre, Return of Owners of Land, 1873, Rod (unit), Rood (disambiguation), Roxboro, County Limerick, Saint Stephen's Church, Negombo, Sandleford, Square mile, St Denys' Church, Sleaford, St James' Parish Church, Wetherby, St John's, Ashfield, St Laud's Church, Mabe, Townland, Upperthorpe, Sheffield, Waterhouses, County Durham, Weights and Measures Acts (UK), White Roding, William Harpur.

Acre

The acre is a unit of land area used in the imperial and US customary systems.

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Bedford School

Bedford School is an HMC independent school for boys located in the county town of Bedford in England.

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Blaenffos

Blaenffos is a small village of around 200 inhabitants in the north of Pembrokeshire, Wales, in the community of Boncath.

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Bolton Street Memorial Park

Bolton Street Memorial Park, formerly known as Bolton Street Cemetery, is the oldest cemetery in Wellington, New Zealand.

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Bulwer, Queensland

Bulwer is a small township and locality at the north-western end of Moreton Island within the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

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Christ's College, Christchurch

Christ's College, Christchurch is an independent, Anglican, secondary, day and boarding school for boys, located in the city centre of Christchurch, New Zealand.

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Clonmethan

Clonmethan (Gleann Meáin; formerly also Clonmelkin, Kilmethan, or Glimmethan) is a townland and a civil parish in the ancient barony of Balrothery West, Fingal in Ireland.

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Eliza's Cottage

Eliza's Cottage is a historic building in the York area of Western Australia.

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Elizur Holyoke

Captain Elizur Holyoke (16181676) of Springfield, Massachusetts was the namesake of the mountain, Mount Holyoke, and (indirectly), of the city of Holyoke, Massachusetts.

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English units

English units are the historical units of measurement used in England up to 1826 (when they were replaced by Imperial units), which evolved as a combination of the Anglo-Saxon and Roman systems of units.

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Foot (unit)

The foot (feet; abbreviation: ft; symbol: ′, the prime symbol) is a unit of length in the imperial and US customary systems of measurement.

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Forests Commission Victoria

The Forests Commission Victoria (FCV) was the main government authority responsible for management and protection of State forests in Victoria, Australia between 1918 and 1983.

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Frauenberg, Rhineland-Palatinate

Frauenberg is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Birkenfeld district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

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Great Famine (Ireland)

The Great Famine (an Gorta Mór) or the Great Hunger was a period of mass starvation, disease, and emigration in Ireland between 1845 and 1849.

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Grumbla

Grumbla (An Gromlegh, meaning the cromlech) is a hamlet in the parish of Sancreed, Cornwall, England, UK.

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Hectare

The hectare (SI symbol: ha) is an SI accepted metric system unit of area equal to a square with 100 meter sides, or 10,000 m2, and is primarily used in the measurement of land.

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Imperial and US customary measurement systems

The imperial and US customary systems of measurement are two closely inter-related systems of measurement both derived from earlier English system of measurement units which can be traced back to Ancient Roman units of measurement, and Carolingian and Saxon units of measure.

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Imperial units

The system of imperial units or the imperial system (also known as British Imperial or Exchequer Standards of 1825) is the system of units first defined in the British Weights and Measures Act of 1824, which was later refined and reduced.

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Irish measure

Irish measure or plantation measure was a system of units of land measurement used in Ireland from the 16th century plantations until the 19th century, with residual use into the 20th century.

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List of obsolete units of measurement

This is a list of obsolete units of measurement, sorted by type.

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Museum of East Anglian Life

The Museum of East Anglian Life is a museum, located in Stowmarket, Suffolk, which specialises in presenting the agricultural history of East Anglia through a mixture of exhibits and living history demonstrations.

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Northfield Allotments

Northfield Allotments are allotments in the Northfields district of Ealing.

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Or

Or is a grammatical conjunction in English.

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Ordnance Survey Great Britain County Series

Both the 6 inch and 25 inch scales showed the boundaries of.

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Quarter acre

In Australian and New Zealand English, a quarter acre is a term for a suburban plot of land.

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Return of Owners of Land, 1873

The two-volume Return of Owners of Land, 1873 is the first complete picture of the distribution of land in the British Isles since the 1086 Domesday Book.

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Rod (unit)

The rod or perch or pole is a surveyor’s tool and unit of length equal to yards, 16 feet, of a statute mile or one-fourth of a surveyor's chain and 5.0292 meters.

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Rood (disambiguation)

A rood is a Christian cross or crucifix.

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Roxboro, County Limerick

Roxborough (Irish: Baile an Róistigh) is a townland in County Limerick, Ireland comprising some 24.02 km2.

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Saint Stephen's Church, Negombo

Saint Stephen's Church, Negombo, is an Anglican church in Negombo, Sri Lanka.

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Sandleford

Sandleford is a hamlet and former parish in the English county of Berkshire.

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Square mile

The square mile (abbreviated as sq mi and sometimes as mi²)Rowlett, Russ (September 1, 2004).

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St Denys' Church, Sleaford

St Denys' Church, Sleaford, is a medieval parish church in Sleaford, Lincolnshire, England.

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St James' Parish Church, Wetherby

St James' Parish Church is an Anglican parish church serving the parish of Wetherby with Linton in Wetherby, West Yorkshire, England.

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St John's, Ashfield

St John the Baptist Anglican Church is an active Anglican church located between Alt and Bland Streets, Ashfield, a suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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St Laud's Church, Mabe

The Church of Saint Laudus (variant: Mabe Church) is an active parish church in Mabe, Cornwall, England, UK, originally built in the 15th century and dedicated to the sixth-century Saint Laudus of Coutances.

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Townland

A townland (baile fearainn; Ulster-Scots: toonlann) is a small geographical division of land used in Ireland.

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Upperthorpe, Sheffield

Upperthorpe is a suburb of the City of Sheffield, England.

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Waterhouses, County Durham

Waterhouses is a village in County Durham, in England.

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Weights and Measures Acts (UK)

Weights and measures acts are acts of the British Parliament determining the regulation of weights and measures.

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White Roding

White Roding is a village and civil parish in the Uttlesford district of Essex, England.

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William Harpur

Sir William Harpur (c. 1496 – 27 February 1574) was a merchant from Bedford who moved to London, amassed a large fortune, and became Lord Mayor of London.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rood_(unit)

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