Plot Sizes

[Digeroo]

If you google sq meters to poles and sq feet to poles there are conversion website which do the maths for you.

You kind of lost me there Busby.  Reminds me of a poem by AA Milne that I liked as a child

Eight eights are sixty four
Multiply by seven.
If it’s more
carry four
and take away eleven.

Nine nines are eighty one
Multiply by three
When it’s done
carry one
and then it’s time for tea.

[Unwashed]

By my calculations Taurus 1800 sq ft equals to 6.61 poles. so you have about 2/3 of a standard allotment size.  So for a standard 10 poles you would be paying £60.50.  So you are paying £6.05 a pole, for local authority site on the high side.  But the huge security fences on the Swindon sites must have been very expensive.

This is somewhat cheaper than Greenthing who would be paying £169.

I hope someone will just check my figures.

Spot-on for Taurus Digeroo, but Greenthing pays £20/pole.

[Alex133]

I was told 10 poles/rods was considered the right size for a family of four to provide for themselves when allotments were first set up.

[manicscousers]

I was told 10 poles/rods was considered the right size for a family of four to provide for themselves when allotments were first set up.

I was told 90'x30', is that the same size?

[Alex133]

I think it is....but may be wrong.

[Unwashed]

I was told 90'x30', is that the same size?

Yes, 90' x 30' is more or less 10 poles.

[gavinjconway]

A lot of our Council and society run plots are being turned into half plots and given to newbies like - about 5 x 22 mt to make enough for all to get without waiting tooo long.. ..

[cobnut]

Ours are about 100m x 10m.  I have a half one so around 50m x 10m.  No idea how many poles that is.  Someone did work it out for me but I've forgotten.  Ours seem to be exceptionally large though.

[ktlawson]

At our site,  Full plots are 10m x 20 and my sad little half plot is only 5m x 10m.

We have one 1/2 plot that is the same size.  My 2 plots are slightly different sizes

plot 1:  40x70ft
plot 2: 35x110ft

[plainleaf]

cobnut
50m x 10m= 500 square meters =19.77 square pole

ktlawson
plot 1:
40ft x 70 ft =2800 square ft =10.28 square pole

plot 2 :
35ft x 110ft= 3850  square ft  =14.14 square pole

links to measurement conversion calculator
http://www.unitconversion.org/unit_converter/area.html

[InfraDig]

What a brilliant poem, Digeroo. I haven't come across it before.

[Monkey Brains]

Wow. What an interesting thread!

Our (old-system) standard plots were 25m x 9m @ £66 p.a.

Halfs (which are Council has as of last year decided is new standard-sized plot for all newbies - oldies can keep whatever they already have) is 25m x 4.5 m, at £33 p.a.

[CambourneSandra]

ours is exactly 16ft X 80ft and costing us £20 a year.

[Alex133]

The converter's useful, Plainleaf.
Bit off course but does anyone find it irritating having to jump from meters to feet/feet to meters all the time - I take both measurements when I go out to buy things now as otherwise I've always got the wrong one and my mental arithmetic isn't that great!

[DATA311]

I am getting a little confused as to what people see as a pole?
I believe that a pole equals 5.03mtrs in imperial measurements, this is a link that could possibly simplify imperial measurements, ( http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/jo/units/length.htm )
It also claims that a standard allotment plot is 10 poles ? don't think my plot is quite that big, will have to take a measure tape with me and check it out.......

[Alex133]

Poles, rods and perches are all the same - didn't know that before A4A. We have rods in this neck of the woods and charges are per rod. I understand 10 is considered a full size plot but I guess most probably vary especially on old sites - we've got a mixture from about 5 to 11.

[Unwashed]

A rod, pole, perch, and lug are all 25m² area as near as makes no difference.  Somewhat confusingly they're all used as both a linear and an area measurement, 16.5 feet long, or and area 16.5ft x 16.5ft, depending on the context (though historically they've all varied in size before anyone thought it important to standardize these things).

Careful not to confuse the rod with the rood - a rood is 1/4 of an acre, and there are 40 rods to the rood, and just to be helpful rood was sometimes spelt rod.