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href="/wiki/Cornwall" title="Cornwall">Cornish</a> units of measurement</b> were used in the 1700s and based on <a href="/wiki/Imperial_units" title="Imperial units">English measurements</a> in their name and rough size, although had slight difference in their values.<sup id="cite_ref-sizes_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sizes-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Area">Area</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Old_Cornish_units_of_measurement&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Area"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable" style="margin-right:0"> <caption>Table of Cornish Area and equivalent units </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Unit </th> <th>Relative to Previous </th> <th>Square yard </th> <th>Cornish Acre </th></tr> <tr> <td align="center"><i>Cornish Fathing Land</i> </td> <td align="center">12 Knight's Fee </td> <td align="right">145200 </td> <td align="right">48 </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center"><i>Cornish <a href="/wiki/Knight%27s_Fee" class="mw-redirect" title="Knight's Fee">Knight's Fees</a></i> </td> <td align="center">4 Cornish Acres </td> <td align="right">12100 </td> <td align="right">4 </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center"><i>Cornish Acre</i> </td> <td align="center">4 Cornish Ferlings </td> <td align="right">3025 </td> <td align="right">1 </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center"><i>Cornish Ferling</i> </td> <td align="center">9 Cornish Rods </td> <td align="right">756.25 </td> <td align="right"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1154941027">.mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .frac .num,.mw-parser-output .frac .den{font-size:80%;line-height:0;vertical-align:super}.mw-parser-output .frac .den{vertical-align:sub}.mw-parser-output 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</td> <td align="right"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1154941027"><span class="frac"><span class="num">1</span>⁄<span class="den">360</span></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center"><i>Cornish Sticks</i> </td> <td align="center"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1154941027"><span class="frac"><span class="num">1</span>⁄<span class="den">4</span></span> of a Cornish Lorgh </td> <td align="right">2.1 </td> <td align="right"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1154941027"><span class="frac"><span class="num">1</span>⁄<span class="den">720</span></span> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><a href="/wiki/Richard_Carew_(antiquary)" title="Richard Carew (antiquary)">Richard Carew</a>'s <i>Survey of Cornwall</i> (1602) says:<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <dl><dd></dd></dl> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>Commonly thirtie Acres make a farthing land, nine farthings a Cornish Acre, and foure Cornish Acres, a Knights fee. But this rule is ouerruled to a greater or lesser quantitie, according to the fruitfulnesse, or barrennesse of the soyle.</p></blockquote> <p><a href="/wiki/Cornwall" title="Cornwall">Cornish</a> <a href="/wiki/Acre" title="Acre">acre</a> – 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 <a href="/wiki/Knight%27s_fee" title="Knight's fee">Knight's fee</a> – 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 </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Length">Length</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Old_Cornish_units_of_measurement&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Length"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <table class="wikitable" style="margin-right:0"> <caption>Table of Cornish length and equivalent units </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Unit </th> <th>Equivalent </th></tr> <tr> <td align="center"><i>Cornish Fathom</i> </td> <td align="right">5 ft </td></tr> <tr> <td 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style="width:5em">Metric</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/MKS_system_of_units" class="mw-redirect" title="MKS system of units">metre–kilogram–second</a> (MKS)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Metre%E2%80%93tonne%E2%80%93second_system_of_units" title="Metre–tonne–second system of units">metre–tonne–second</a> (MTS)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Centimetre%E2%80%93gram%E2%80%93second_system_of_units" title="Centimetre–gram–second system of units">centimetre–gram–second</a> (CGS)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gravitational_metric_system" title="Gravitational metric system">gravitational</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:5em">Europe</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Cornish</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cypriot_units_of_measurement" title="Cypriot 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title="Latvian units of measurement">Latvian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Luxembourgian_units_of_measurement" class="mw-redirect" title="Luxembourgian units of measurement">Luxembourgian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maltese_units_of_measurement" title="Maltese units of measurement">Maltese</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Norwegian_units_of_measurement" title="Norwegian units of measurement">Norwegian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ottoman_units_of_measurement" title="Ottoman units of measurement">Ottoman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Polish_units_of_measurement" title="Polish units of measurement">Polish</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Portuguese_units_of_measurement" title="Portuguese units of measurement">Portuguese</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Romanian_units_of_measurement" title="Romanian units of measurement">Romanian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Obsolete_Russian_units_of_measurement" class="mw-redirect" title="Obsolete Russian units of measurement">Russian</a></li> <li><a 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