GBC
Length/Distance

Pace

Modern equivalent

5 feet = 1.524 metres

A traditional length unit representing a full two-step stride (5 feet).

Roman and English surveyors occasionally used pacing for rapid approximations of land distances before precise chain and wheel instruments became universal.

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