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Latin, ferlang, ferdingus
Furlongs occur mainly in circuit 2, in the counties of Cornwall, Devon and Somerset, as a unit of assessment, being one-quarter of a virgate, or a sixteenth of a hide.
For more detail, see the note to DEV 1,4 in Domesday Book, vol. 9: Devon, edited by Caroline and Frank Thorn (2 vols., Phillimore, 1985).
See also quarter.