Editing Chain (unit) (section)

===Australia and New Zealand===
In [[Australia]] and [[New Zealand]], most building lots in the past were a quarter of an acre, measuring one chain by two and a half chains, and other lots would be multiples or fractions of a chain.<ref name="Seddon1998">{{cite book|author=George Seddon|title=Landprints: Reflections on Place and Landscape|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZIAR6EvER2AC&pg=PA151|access-date=28 May 2013|date=28 September 1998|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-65999-4|pages=151–}}</ref> The street [[frontage]]s of many houses in these countries are one chain wide—roads were almost always {{convert|1|chain|m|1}} wide in urban areas,<ref name="Seddon1998"/> sometimes {{convert|1.5|chain|m|1}} or {{convert|2.5|chain|m|1}}. Laneways would be half a chain (10.1&nbsp;m). In rural areas the roads were wider, up to {{convert|10|chain|m|1}} where a [[stock route]] was required. {{convert|5|chain|m|1}} roads were surveyed as major roads or highways between larger towns, {{convert|3|chain|m|1}} roads between smaller localities,<ref>{{cite web|last=Lay|first=M. G.|title=Roads|url=http://www.emelbourne.net.au/biogs/EM01255b.htm|work=emelbourne the city past and present|publisher=School of Historical Studies Department of History, The University of Melbourne|access-date=28 May 2013|date=July 2008}}</ref> and {{convert|2|chain|m|1}} roads were local roads in farming communities. Roads named Three Chain Road etc. persist today.<ref>{{cite web |title=375 THREE CHAIN ROAD, Kilmore, Vic 3764 - Property Details |url=https://www.realestate.com.au/sold/property-livestock-vic-kilmore-7908210 |website=www.realestate.com.au |access-date=8 August 2018 |language=en-AU}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Map of Three Chain Road in Queensland - Bonzle Digital Atlas of Australia |url=http://www.bonzle.com/c/a?a=p&p=173789&cmd=sp |website=www.bonzle.com |access-date=8 August 2018}}</ref>

The "Queen's Chain" is a concept that has long existed in New Zealand, of a strip of public land, usually 20 metres (or one chain in pre-metric measure) wide from the high water mark, that has been set aside for public use along the coast, around many lakes, and along all or part of many rivers.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/queen%27s_chain|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180808172201/https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/queen%27s_chain|url-status=dead|archive-date=August 8, 2018|access-date=4 July 2017|title=Queen's Chain|publisher=Oxford Dictionaries – oxforddictionaries.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=3517579|access-date=4 July 2017|title=Truth behind the Queen's Chain|date=12 August 2003|publisher=[[The New Zealand Herald]] }}</ref> These strips exist in various forms (including road reserves, esplanade reserves, esplanade strips, marginal strips and reserves of various types) but not as extensively and consistently as is often assumed.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/law-of-the-foreshore-and-seabed/page-3|title=Te Ara, Encyclopedia of New Zealand}}</ref>