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The Roods to Square Feet Converter converts the historical land area unit rood to square feet. One rood equals 10,890 square feet, which is exactly one-quarter of an acre. This conversion is important for interpreting historical property records, old land deeds, and surveying documents.
The rood is an old English unit of area that was widely used in the British Isles for centuries before the metric system. It remained in common use for land measurement well into the 20th century, particularly in rural areas of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. Many historical property deeds and land records reference areas in acres, roods, and perches (abbreviated A-R-P).
One rood equals exactly 1/4 acre = 1,210 square yards = 10,890 square feet. While rarely used in modern transactions, understanding roods is essential for genealogists, historians, property lawyers, and anyone working with historical land records in the British Commonwealth.
Our converter also provides metric equivalents in square meters and conversion to acres for modern context.
The formula: square feet = roods × 10,890. One rood = 1/4 acre = 1,210 yd² = 10,890 ft². For metric: square meters = roods × 1,011.714 (since 1 ft² = 0.09290304 m², so 10,890 × 0.09290304 = 1,011.714 m²). For acres: acres = roods × 0.25.
Historical property records typically express area as acres-roods-perches (e.g., 3A-2R-15P means 3 acres, 2 roods, and 15 perches). Since 1 acre = 4 roods and 1 rood = 40 perches, the total area in roods would be 3 × 4 + 2 + 15/40 = 14.375 roods.
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1 rood = 10,890 ft² = 1/4 acre
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2 roods = 21,780 ft² = 1/2 acre
1 rood = 10,890 square feet, which is exactly 1/4 of an acre.
A rood is an old English unit of area equal to 1/4 acre = 1,210 square yards = 10,890 square feet. It was used for land measurement in the British Isles.
There are exactly 4 roods in 1 acre.
Rarely. The rood was formally abolished in the UK by the Weights and Measures Act 1985, but it appears in historical property records and old deeds.
1 rood = 40 perches (also called poles or rods). 1 perch = 272.25 ft² = 30.25 yd².
The format A-R-P means Acres, Roods, Perches. Convert by: total area = A + R/4 + P/160 acres.
A rood (10,890 ft² ≈ 1,012 m²) is roughly the size of 4 tennis courts or a medium garden plot.
The rood was used throughout the British Isles, British colonies, and Commonwealth countries for land measurement from medieval times until the 20th century.
1 rood ≈ 1,011.71 m² ≈ 0.1012 hectares.
A rood was originally defined as a strip of land 1 furlong (660 ft) long and 1 rod (16.5 ft) wide = 10,890 ft².
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