The old
Cornish units of measurement were used in the 1700s and based on
English measurements in their name and rough size, although had slight difference in their values.
Area
Richard Carew's ''Survey of Cornwall'' (1602) says:
:
Cornish acre
The acre ( ) is a Unit of measurement, unit of land area used in the Imperial units, British imperial and the United States customary units#Area, United States customary systems. It is traditionally defined as the area of one Chain (unit), ch ...
– 120 statute acres (or possibly 64), 8 score lease. Equal to 0.066 Acres.
Cornish ferling/farthing – ¼ a Cornish acre
Cornish lease – four sticks
Cornish stick – four yards, three yards square
Cornish
Knight's fee
In feudal Anglo-Norman England and Ireland, a knight's fee was a unit measure of land deemed sufficient to support a knight. It would not only provide sustenance for himself, his family, and servants, but also the means to furnish himself and h ...
– four Cornish acres
Cornish rod – 160 lace to a Cornish acre, 36sq. rods
Cornish lace – 18 ft square
Cornish land rod/lorgh – half a lace, 9 ft square
Length
Capacity
Mass
Fish
Sources
* Thornton B. Edwards, ''Cornish! a Dictionary of Phrases, Terms and Epithets Beginning with the word "Cornish"'', 2005.
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