Various local versions of the rod or perch, a unit of length used in measuring land:
Hertfordshire, 20 feet.
Wiltshire, 15, 16½ or 18 feet.
Dorsetshire, 15 feet, 1 inch. Also called a goad.
Second Report of the Commissioners, 1820. Appendix page 26.
In Herefordshire, England, a unit of land area for coppice wood, = 49 square yards.
Second Report of the Commissioners, 1820. Appendix page 26.
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