The units of land area called the “Welsh acre” are easily confounded with other acres also in use in Wales, which also included the Cornish acre, the Lancashire acre and the Staffordshire acre. Please see the sources reprinted in Davies and Owen on land measures of Wales.
= 3240 square yards.
= 4320 square yards, based on a pole of feet. In Anglesey and Caernarvonshire, called a cyvar.
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