Convert league (lea) to barleycorn
Selected category: length.
Definition and details for league (lea):
League (lea) is a traditional unit of distance. In the U.S. and Britain, league is defined to be equal to 3 statute miles or about 4828.03 meters.
Definition and details for barleycorn:
Barleycorn is an old English unit of distance equal to 1/3 inch or about 8.47 millimeters. In farming societies was very common to use seeds as units of length. Barley was a basic crop in England. So barleycorn was a useful unit.