Re: How long is a Chain?

[Kim Hazelgrove <azltech@opera.iinet.net.au>]

Bradley Torr wrote:

> 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.