Furlong the common length for English Measures four Poles, as answering indifferently to the Englishs Mile and Acre, 10 such Chains in length making a Furlong, and 10 single square Chains an Acre, so that a square Mile contains 640 square Acres." —John Ogilby, Britannia, 1675 The official use of the furlong was abolished in the United Kingdom under the Weights and Measures Act 1985, an act that also abolished the official use of many other traditional units of measurement. In Myanmar, furlongs are currently used in conjunction with miles to indicate distances on highway signs. Mileposts on the Yangon–Mandalay Expressway
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