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to be fed, cleaned and bedded down so as to be ready for the next session tomorrow.
Now if we multilply our area of 1 x chain times 1 x furlong or 22 x 220 yards, we achieve 4840 square yards or 1 acre. There are 640 acres to a square mile. And when, on a Sunday in the summer, the ploughboy wanted a game of cricket with his pals after chapel, then he’d take his chain and measure out the pitch – 22 yards – and play, this being the perfect length as proved over centuries and across continents.
And if you’re wondering about the connec- tion between horse racing and ploughing with oxen, sporting gentlemen with their horses would wager on a race between their present location and a distant church stee- ple, being something that could be seen from a distance and would ride across country to determine the winner from which we get the term, ‘steeplechase’. And whilst they might not laboriously use the chain to measure out how many furlongs it was away, they would use their practised eye from setting out the ploughing to estimate the number of furlongs involved, there being 8 to the mile. All the measurements relate to the yard being the standard pace of an adult male being made up of three ‘feet’.
So even if you know your litres and kilome- tres backwards, there’s little or no romance in the same way as there is in many of our imperial measures. So, wishing you a chal- dron of something you fancy to keep you cool, until next time!
The Hodge
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