Gunter's measurement

Gunter's measurement

Gunter’s measurement, sometimes Surveyor’s measurement, is a geodetic system, formerly popular in Britain and its (former) colonies. It was developed in the 17th century by Edmund Gunter and is still in use today in the United States of America.

Gunter used an actual measuring chain of 100 links. These, the "chain" and the "link", have become units of their own.

Unit of length
name=Gunter's chain
m= 20.1168
accuracy=6 The "Gunter’s chain" is equal to 4 rods , 22 yards, 66 feet, frac|80 of a mile or 20.1168 metres. The rectangular area with edges of one chain and one furlong (10 chains) respectively (ten square chains) is one acre, therefore the chain is sometimes called an "acre-breadth".

Unit of length
name=Gunter's link
m= .201168
accuracy=6 "Gunter’s link" is 1 chain/100. Thus it is exactly 7.92 inches or 201.168 mm. A "square link" is exactly one hundred-thousandth of an acre and one ten-thousandth of one "square chain" or 0.0404685642 m². It is about 62¾ square inches.

In some places other lengths have been used, for example 8.928 inches (ca. 0.227 m) in Scotland and 10.08 inches (ca. 0.256 m) in Ireland.

Chain is usually abbreviated as 'ch.', whereas link becomes either 'l.', 'li.' or 'lnk.'.

An American, similar system of about the same age but lesser popularity is "Ramden’s" or the "engineer’s system", where the chain consists also of 100 links, each one foot (0.3048 m) long. The even less common "Rathborn system", also from the 17th century, is based on a chain of two rods (33 feet, 10.0584 m) length, which consists of 100 links, too (1.98 inches, 50.292 mm each), which are called "seconds" (″), ten of which make a "prime" (′, 19.8 inches, 0.503 m).

See also

* Chain (unit)
* Link (unit)
* Mile


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