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A chain is 22 yards.

It's an old English measurement; 10 chains make a furlong (contraction of furrow long) and eight furlongs make a mile.

A piece of land that is a chain wide and a "furrow-long" is 10 square chains, but it's better known as an acre. In medieval strip architecture each peasant was allocated a strip of land one chain wide and one furrow-long. The lord of the manor provided the chain.

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