Re: How long is a Chain?

["Bradley Torr" <btorr@bigpond.nospam.com>]

David McLoughlin <davemcl@AXE*THISiprolink.co.nz> wrote in article
<3854a521@news.iprolink.co.nz>...

> But don't worry about it [the chain].
> 
> It's only important in cricket nowadays (a cricket pitch is one chain
> long).

And important to surveyors... and conveyancers... and urban planners... and
cartographers... and GIS specialists... and railway historians..... :-) You
wouldn't believe how many property records and title deeds and cadastral
maps out there are still in the olde archaic measurements... roods, rods,
perches, chains, acres, etc. Spending countless afternoons going through
property records and deposited plans at the local council archives and at
the Lands Titles Office while at uni certainly taught me all about these!

Regards,
Bradley.