Barony
Barony was an English square measure. Since the term means something like manor , i.e. a domain ( baronate ), the measure of hide of land is to be taken as the area of agriculture . The area of 4.05 hectares for a hide of land can only be explained with the possible exact value of 404,678.377 square meters .
- 1 barony = 40 hides (of land) = 162 hectares
literature
- Helmut Kahnt, Bernd Knorr: Old measures, coins and weights. A lexicon. Bibliographisches Institut, Mannheim et al. 1987, ISBN 3-411-02148-9 , pp. 32, 122.