Furlong in most applications. Five furlongs are about 1.0 kilometre ( is the exact value, according to the international conversion). The name "furlong" derives from the Old English words ' (furrow) and ' (long). Dating back at least to early Anglo-Saxon times, it originally referred to the length of the furrow in one acre of a ploughed open field (a medieval communal field which was divided into strips). The furlong (meaning furrow length) was the distance a team of oxen could plough without resting. This was standardised to be exactly 40 rods or 10 chains. The system of long furrows arose
Women in Chains debut) virtually reprised a similar role fifteen years earlier in "Women's Prison"." "Women's Prison", released in February 1955, actually preceded the January 1972 broadcast of "Women in Chains" by seventeen years, and both Weldon and Marill also misstated Lupino's prison position (head guard) in the later film. Women in Chains Women in Chains is an American television film directed in 1972 by Bernard L. Kowalski for ABC's "The Movie of the Week". The leading players are Ida Lupino, Belinda Montgomery, Lois Nettleton and Jessica Walter. Parole officer Sandra Parker (Lois Nettleton) becomes aware of the death of one of her