There are 43,560 square feet in an acre. This is equal to 1/640 of a square mile, or approximately 80 percent of the area of an American football field, including the end zones.
Kirkby is a name that was brought to England by the ancestors of the Kirkby family when they migrated to the region after the Norman Conquest in 1066. The Kirkby family lived at Kirkby in Furness. The name Kirkby means village with a church.
Usage of the term tabby cat , which means one with a striped coat, began in the 1690s and was later shortened to tabby in 1774. The notion that tabby is indicative of a female cat may be a reference to the feminine proper name Tabby, as a shortened form of Tabitha. Tabby patterns