[garddwr]

I'm not sure how big  I should make mine ?

[Etherelda]

I was told mine is 5 rods, its 9x9m, 30'x30', 81sqm. Dont' know if I'm being diddled out of land, but I still haven't had the paperwork and charges yet.

[Aunt Sally]

It's a bit smaller than 5 rods  

30 x 45 ft is 5 rods

[Etherelda]

thanks Sally, put my mind to rest. Maybe I can knock them down on price. Maybe not, its only £5!

[Aunt Sally]

That's a good price.  Do you have water on site ?

[Etherelda]

no water, heavy clay and club root. Never mind.

[Aunt Sally]

Ooooo..  Lots of lime needed then.

[Salmo]

A rod, pole or peck is 16.5 feet.  4 rods = 1 chain.  I know 'cos I'm old.

Almost right. We start getting muddled as we get old!!! It should be rod, pole or perch. A peck is a volume measure which I think is a quarter of a bushel. ( 4 pecks to the bushel, 8 bushels to the quarter. A quarter of barley weighed about 1 hundredweight, wheat a little more).

A standard allotment is usually referred to as a 10 pole allotment. It is not technically correct and should in fact be called 10 square poles, about 300 square yards. Yours is 21 poles (7 x 3) and I imagine it was originally two 10 pole plots. The extra bit might be due to the dividing path being included.

[Yabba]

So, how many pecks will an average pole get in it's lifetime? :roll:

¥

[Salmo]

Depends if he is handsome, and if you want your plumbing finished.

[Salmo]

I have just read in a magazine that a 'rod' was the length of the stick needed to reach the leading oxen in a plough team.

Presume that pole comes from the same thing. Anyone any ideas what why 'perch'?