On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 21:40:03 -0000, "Bill Grey"
wrote:

On "Time Team" this evening their surveyor spoke of Rods, Poles and Perches
say that a Rod was 5,5metres!

and to compound that he said it was 18 ft.

1 Rod = 5.5 yards = 16.5 ft

The confusion continues 1

That triggers my primary school tables;
"five and a half yards, one rod, pole or perch".
I think allotments are historically measured in r, p or p, but forget
what mine is.


Pam in Bristol