How big is an acre ? in real terms
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I dunno if you can do this with Google Earth (I looked, couldn't find anything) but if you use local.live.com, open the 'Collections' menu, you can use the "mark an area on the map" tool, and it will tell you the area you have defined. At the moment it is only doing it in square feet for me, but it is easy enough to convert from that.
tubbystu said:
An acre is 220 yards x 22 yards. (1/8th of a mile x 1/80th of a mile)
Approx 196m x 19.6m for those who don't speak both "country and western". Approx 2.6 acres - 1 hectare.
Size of acre is based on what one man with one horse could plough in one day.
A football pitch as no fixed size in the ganes rules but must be between 100 and 130 yards long and between 50 and 100 yards wide.
HTH
Correct, that is why it was affectionalety known as an 'acher' Approx 196m x 19.6m for those who don't speak both "country and western". Approx 2.6 acres - 1 hectare.
Size of acre is based on what one man with one horse could plough in one day.
A football pitch as no fixed size in the ganes rules but must be between 100 and 130 yards long and between 50 and 100 yards wide.
HTH
but lets not get into rods, poles, perches and any other strange bits of "old money" size descriptions. My Ex In laws property was on an acre. One quarter was the house (normal 3 bed sized house, one was the orchard, one was the veggie plot and the last quarter was a standard sized garden if you can sort of envisage that. Worked out smaller in size than you would have thought. But having said that I am told developers build/used to build 6 or 8 houses on a acre - really I know new builds are small but jeez!
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