Winchester measure is a set of legal standards of volume instituted in the late 15th century (1495) by King Henry VII of England and in use, with some modifications, until the present day. It consists of the Winchester bushel and its dependent quantities, the peck, (dry) gallon and (dry) quart. They would later become known as the Winchester Standards, named because the examples were kept in the city of Winchester.
Winchester measure may also refer to:
- the systems of weights and measures used in the Kingdom of Wessex during the Anglo-Saxon period, later adopted as the national standards of England, as well as the physical standards (prototypes) associated with these systems of units[1]
- a set of avoirdupois weight standards dating to the mid-14th century, in particular, the 56-pound standard commissioned by King Edward III, which served as the prototype for Queen Elizabeth I's reform of the avoirdupois weight system in 1588[2]
- a type of glass bottle, usually amber, used in the drug and chemical industry, known variously as the Boston round, Winchester bottle, or Winchester quart bottle
- ^ Ronald Edward Zupko (1977). British weights & measures: a history from antiquity to the seventeenth century. University of Wisconsin Press. pp. 12–3. ISBN 9780299073404. Retrieved 30 January 2012.
- ^ The Encyclopedia Americana: a library of universal knowledge. Encyclopedia Americana Corp. 1919. p. 472. Retrieved 30 January 2012.
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