What is Vergée?
[[Image:Almanach Nouvelle Chronique de Jersey 1891 vergees acres conversion table.jpg|thumb|Tables of conversion between Jersey vergées and English acres from an 1891 almanac]] A '''vergée''', or '''vergee''', is a unit of area, a quarter of the French [[acre]]. Other spellings include '''vergie''' and '''vrégie'''. It is not an [[SI]] unit. The SI unit of area is the square [[metre]]. The term derives from Latin ''virga'' (rod). Compare [[French language|French]] ''verge'' (yard). In the [[Channel Islands]], it is a standard measure of land, but the statutory definition differs between the [[bailiwick]]s. * In [[Guernsey]], a vergée ([[Guernésiais]]: vergie) is 17,640 square feet (1,639 m²). It is 40 (square) Guernsey perches. A Guernsey perch (also spelt perque) is 21 feet by 21 feet.<ref>''Dictiounnaire Angllais-Guernésiais'', de Garis, 1982 {{ISBN|0850334624}}</ref> * In [[Jersey]], a vergée ([[Jèrriais]]: vrégie) is 19,360 square feet (1,798.6 m²). It is 40 (square) Jersey perches. A Jersey perch (also spelt pèrque) is a square 24 ''pied de perche'' on each side (i.e. a square 22 imperial feet on each side).<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.gov.je/EconomicDevelopment/TradingStandards/Weights+and+Measures/Unusual+Jersey+Measures.htm |title=Unusual Jersey Measures |access-date=2011-02-28 |archive-date=2006-07-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060721143239/http://www.gov.je/EconomicDevelopment/TradingStandards/Weights+and+Measures/Unusual+Jersey+Measures.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[File:Don Jeanne Gruchy Sainte Mathie Jèrri.jpg|thumb|An inscribed stone describes this 11 vergée 25 perch ''clos des pauvres'' in Jersey]] In [[France]] a vergée was 12,100 square Paris feet (1,276.8 m²). It was 25 (square) perches. The [[surveying]] perch measured 22 French feet. the royal perch was 18 French feet. ==Conversions== 1 vergée (Guernsey) is equivalent to: *1 638.809 63 m² *0.404958678 acres 1 vergée (Jersey) is equivalent to: *1,798.60285 m² *0.444444444 acres ==References== {{reflist}} ==Related p