Time for some clues I think - one of these may well have been on a sign in St.Albans in earlier days - the other could have been read by a sheep !
Sorry Yorkie not leagues. Both measurements were called miles, but the official British mile was not always standardized.
Arnold's c. 1500 Customs of London recorded a mile shorter than previous ones, coming to 0.947 international miles or 1.524 km. The Welsh mile (milltir or milldir) was 3 miles and 1470 yards long (6.17 km). It comprised 9000 paces (cam), each of 3 Welsh feet (troedfedd) of 9 inches, Am I any nearer?
You have one of them Yorkie - the Welsh Mile is correct, and was used to measure distances until the time of Edward 1. Now for the shortest - think about St. Albans, and all those school trips.
I think you have it Yorkie. The Imperial Roman mile was used throughout the Roman Empire and measured 1,000 paces, which was 5,000 feet (a pace was actually a double step meaning the measurement between the distances between one foot touching the ground - Roman Yards were different in this respect). Because Roman feet were smaller than modern ones this represents 4,850 modern feet. The Roman mile was, in effect, ecquivalent to 1.48 Km. making it the shortest mile every used on the British Isles - there are milestones remaining from Hadrian's Wall which use this measurement. Over to you.
Weren't we always forced onto school trips to see the ruins of Verulamium Yorkie ? This was just about the only School trip we managed. It should be added that the distance from Watford to Verulamium would have been 9.7 Roman miles - as opposed to the 8.9 miles now. Not that Watford really existed then.
Just to narrow things down, do you mean living and breathing 'Queens'. If not a country producing either playing cards or chess pieces
Yes.. Any game in which a pawn is converted.. So any country in which chess is played Sent from my F8331 using Tapatalk
Cheers Yorkie. The first known derivative of this word was first recorded in the 14th Century and meant ''A small misshapen egg'' - a later derivative meant ''A mythical land of luxury''. This evolved into the one modern word - what is it ?
As is often the case if you know some German it can help with deciphering older forms of English. You have less barney rubble with this if you concentrate on the borrow and beg.
