# Selion > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Selion > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Selion.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selion > Source revision: 1041313887 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Small acre-size lot for farming in medieval societies}} A '''selion''' is a [medieval](/source/medieval) open strip of land or a small [field](/source/Field_(agriculture)) used for growing crops, usually owned by or rented to [peasants](/source/peasants). A selion of land was typically one [furlong](/source/furlong) (660 ft) long and one [chain](/source/chain_(unit)) (66 ft) wide, so one [acre](/source/acre) in area. However exact measurements could vary depending on the geography of the land. [Monasteries](/source/Monasteries) or similar institutions were often bequeathed selions and derived an income by letting them.{{Citation needed|date=January 2021|reason=no citation, appears to be from “Freebase” at https://www.definitions.net/definition/selion and the end sentence is incomplete}} ==Relationship to strip farming== A [strip](/source/Open-field_system) of land consisted of one, two or three selions, although Rackham reports that a strip might be "a block of up to forty selions".{{cite book|last1=Rackham|first1=Oliver|title=The History of the Countryside|date=1987|publisher=Dent|isbn=0-460-86091-7|page=165}} ==References== {{reflist}} Category:Medieval society {{Europe-hist-stub}} --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Selion](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selion) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selion?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.