GBC
Speed

League per Hour

Modern equivalent

3 mph

Found in older British literature to describe the steady speed of a walking pace.

This literary speed unit encapsulates pre-industrial travel speeds, reflecting how fast a traveller on foot or horseback could journey across rural countryside.

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