Allotment size

[trappa 518]

I was talking to a lad today about allotment sizes and he was talking in "rods". Bluffed i knew what he was on about but didt have a feckin clue!

Googled it and computer says a rod is 25 sq metres. That seems awfully large!!!

 

Anyway, does anyone else do rods? is this the norm? I thought my allotment was a big one but now im wanting to know how big everyone elses is! ooer missus

[SEAN3513 7]

our local council do two sizes

 

small...... sq m ( £24 per year)

 

and

 

large.....120 sq m ( £36 per year)

[trappa 518]

Cheers sean. Im rubbish at sums mate, how many metres long and wide is sq metres. Is it 8 metres by 10 metres?

[darbo 4,779]

i have 2 30 metres by 10 metres. i for vegetables 1 for poultry. i havent heard the term rods for land size. but i have heard of land measured in poles ie 1 pole =6 metres. so a old chap says on the allotments.

[trappa 518]

2 big lumps there darbo!!

[darbo 4,779]

2 big lumps there darbo!!

yes they are 2 good sizes of land. it was a case of being in the right place at the right time and knowing the right people. but i think the poultry 1 is going to be divided in 2. i have had them for 20 years. i learn a bit more each year but still struggle with summer cauliflowers.

[JoeD 24]

Ours are in poles

I have 7 poles.

 

Dont have a clue how big that is but its a fair size.

[Paid 935]

Mines 12 rods, for £20 a year, the smaller ones are 6 rods, for £15, so a bargin

[iamduvern 62]

This should sort any confusion

 

rod, pole or perch 40 poles = 1 furlong

 

1 pole=5.5 yards

 

 

 

 

4 poles = 1 chain

 

80Chain=1mile

 

 

1 rod = 1 pole = 1 perch Rods, poles and perches are different names for the same unit. Medieval ploughing was done with oxen, up to 4 pairs at a time. The ploughman handled the plough. His boy controlled the oxen using a stick, which had to be long enough to reach all the oxen. This was the rod, pole or perch. It was an obvious implement to measure the fields, such as 4 poles to the chain. A BBC webpage about allotments says that "an allotment plot is 10 poles" and claims that "A pole is measured as the length from the back of the plough to the nose of the ox". I suppose that if you wanted to control the front ox, you needed a pole long enough to reach! The perch was used in the reign of Henry II (1154-1189), the pole since the 16C, and the rod since 1450. In the 16th century the lawful rod was decreed to be the combined length of the left feet of 16 men as they left church on a Sunday morning. In North Devon there is a tradition that fencing, that is to say the cutting and laying of a hedge, would be done at so much a land yard, which seemed to be about 5 paces or 5.5 yards, which would equate to a rod, pole or perch. An earlier name for a rod was a gyrd which is the derivation of a yard.

 

 

Good old fashioned IMPERIAL measurement

[JoeD 24]

This should sort any confusion

 

rod, pole or perch 40 poles = 1 furlong

 

1 pole=5.5 yards

 

 

 

 

4 poles = 1 chain

 

80Chain=1mile

 

 

1 rod = 1 pole = 1 perch Rods, poles and perches are different names for the same unit. Medieval ploughing was done with oxen, up to 4 pairs at a time. The ploughman handled the plough. His boy controlled the oxen using a stick, which had to be long enough to reach all the oxen. This was the rod, pole or perch. It was an obvious implement to measure the fields, such as 4 poles to the chain. A BBC webpage about allotments says that "an allotment plot is 10 poles" and claims that "A pole is measured as the length from the back of the plough to the nose of the ox". I suppose that if you wanted to control the front ox, you needed a pole long enough to reach! The perch was used in the reign of Henry II (1154-1189), the pole since the 16C, and the rod since 1450. In the 16th century the lawful rod was decreed to be the combined length of the left feet of 16 men as they left church on a Sunday morning. In North Devon there is a tradition that fencing, that is to say the cutting and laying of a hedge, would be done at so much a land yard, which seemed to be about 5 paces or 5.5 yards, which would equate to a rod, pole or perch. An earlier name for a rod was a gyrd which is the derivation of a yard.

 

 

Good old fashioned IMPERIAL measurement

 

Interesting, thanks for that.

Now I can act all smart when someone asks me up the allotent haha.

 

Joe

[trappa 518]

This should sort any confusion

 

rod, pole or perch 40 poles = 1 furlong

 

1 pole=5.5 yards

 

 

 

 

4 poles = 1 chain

 

80Chain=1mile

 

 

1 rod = 1 pole = 1 perch Rods, poles and perches are different names for the same unit. Medieval ploughing was done with oxen, up to 4 pairs at a time. The ploughman handled the plough. His boy controlled the oxen using a stick, which had to be long enough to reach all the oxen. This was the rod, pole or perch. It was an obvious implement to measure the fields, such as 4 poles to the chain. A BBC webpage about allotments says that "an allotment plot is 10 poles" and claims that "A pole is measured as the length from the back of the plough to the nose of the ox". I suppose that if you wanted to control the front ox, you needed a pole long enough to reach! The perch was used in the reign of Henry II (1154-1189), the pole since the 16C, and the rod since 1450. In the 16th century the lawful rod was decreed to be the combined length of the left feet of 16 men as they left church on a Sunday morning. In North Devon there is a tradition that fencing, that is to say the cutting and laying of a hedge, would be done at so much a land yard, which seemed to be about 5 paces or 5.5 yards, which would equate to a rod, pole or perch. An earlier name for a rod was a gyrd which is the derivation of a yard.

 

 

Good old fashioned IMPERIAL measurement

Cheers fella!