What is a furlong in distance

Question

What is a furlong in distance

Answer 1

One Furlong is a unit for measuring, equal to 1/8 mile or 220 yards.

Answer 2

220 Yards.

Answer 3

A furlong is a measure of distance in imperial units and U.S. customary units. It is equal to one-eighth of a mile or 660 feet or 201.168 metres.

Five furlongs are approximately 1 kilometre (1.00584 km to be exact). Since the original definition of the metre was one-quarter of one ten-millionth of the circumference of the Earth (along the great circle coincident with The name furlong derives from the Old English words furh (furrow) and lang (long).

Dating back at least to the ninth century, it originally referred to the length of the furrow in one acre of a ploughed open field (a medieval communal field which was divided into strips).

The system of long furrows arose because turning a team of oxen pulling a heavy plough was difficult. This offset the drainage advantages of short furrows and meant furrows were made as long as possible.

An acre is an area that is one furlong long and one chain (22 yards) wide. For this reason, the furlong was once also called an acre's length.

Answer 4

It is equal to one-eighth of a mile or 660 feet or 201.168 metres.

Answer 5

220 yards is one furlong  8 furlongs is 1 mile

Answer 6

1/8 of a mile  

Answer 7

1/8 of a mile

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