Length units of the World

from Beeton′s Ready Reckoner

Beeton's translates the names of some units as "ell" and some as "fathom" - where "double foot" or "cubit" might be more appropriate. The sections in the following table follow those in the "Ready Reckoner". I don't have the date of publication, but it will be around the beginning of the twentieth century.

"Ell"		"Fathom"
Of	inches	Of	inches
Anvers, silk	27·33	England	72·00
Anvers, woollen	26·94	Boulogne	25·40
Berlin, old	26·28	Carrara	24·39
Berlin, new	26·25	Cremona	23·42
Berne	21·35	Ferrara, silk	24·97
Bremen	22·77	Ferrara, linen	26·49
Brunswick	22·46	Florence	23·39
Cassel	22·41	Lucca	23·42
Cologne	22·64	Mantua	25·34
Constantinople, large	26·34	Milan	23·42
Constantinople, small	25·50	Modena	25·51
Copenhagen	24·71	Padua, cloth	26·81
Cracow	24·29	Padua, silk	25·09
Dresden	22·30	Parma, wool	25·34
Frankfurt/Main	21·54	Parma, silk	23·40
Geneva	45·00	Pavia	23·42
Hamburg	22·55	Rome, merchants	33·39
-, Brabant	27·21	Rome, weavers	25·04
Hanover	22·99	Venice, wool	26·90
Harlem, common	26·90	Venice, silk	25·14
Harlem, linen	29·23	Verona, large	25·55
Leipsic	22·25	Verona, small	25·29
Leyden	26·89	Vicenza, cloth	27·17
Lubeck	22·71	Vicenza, silk	25·04
Madrid (vara)	33·38
Munich	32·79	"Foot"
Neuchatel	43·74	Paris	12·82
Nuremberg	25·84	Boulogne	15·00
Ostend	27·53	Dantzig	11·33
Ragusa	20·20	Danish	12·50
Riga	39·37	Swedish	11·73
Rostock	22·64
Stockholm	23·37
Stuttgard	24·18
Vienna	30·66
-, Upper Austria	31·48
Warsaw	23·01
Weimar	22·20
Zurich	23·62