“Perhaps, however, he could ensure against being completely alone by cultivating the few roods of garden wished upon him.”

“Among the main features of the interior are the magnificent rood screen, reredos and font canopy of Frosterley marble.”

“After she'd stopped screaming she turns to run out of the rood, smack bang into the door.”

“It was part of an area of 15 acres, three roods and four perches originally granted to John Dickson.”

“In 1914, 1 acre was taken for a pumice quarry, and subsequently 3 roods, or 27.8 perches, were returned to the descendants of those owners.”

“It is described in Griffith's Valuation of 1857 as containing one acre two roods and five perches and owned by him.”