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Chains to Feet Converter

Enter a value in chains to convert it to feet, metres.

How to use

  1. Enter your values in the fields above.
  2. Press Calculate to see your result instantly.
  3. Use the Share button to copy a link to your result.

About this calculator

A Gunter's chain — the surveying chain designed by Edmund Gunter in 1620 — is defined as exactly 66 feet (22 yards, 4 rods, or 100 links of 7.92 inches each), a length chosen so that 10 square chains equal exactly 1 acre, which is why it became the backbone unit of English-speaking land measurement for centuries.

Land surveyors still use the chain in the US Public Land Survey System and legal property descriptions (deeds routinely read "thence 20 chains to a stake"), and it survives elsewhere too — a cricket pitch is famously exactly one chain (22 yards) between the stumps.

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