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The imperial system of units, imperial system or imperial units (also known as British Imperial[1] or Exchequer Standards of 1826) is the system of units first defined in the British Weights and Measures Act 1824 and continued to be developed through a series of Weights and Measures Acts and amendments.
The imperial system of measurement or the British imperial system is the system of measurement defined in the UK after the Weights and Measures Act of 1824 and 1878. These include units that were in common use in Britain like inches, pounds, gallons, etc.
Imperial units, units of measurement of the British Imperial System, the traditional system of weights and measures used officially in Great Britain from 1824 until the adoption of the metric system beginning in 1965.
What Is the Imperial System? The imperial measurement system, or the British Imperial system, is a traditional system of measurements based on the old English units. (The English units, consisting of Winchester units and Exchequer Standards, were the prevailing system before 1826.
The Imperial units or the Imperial system is a collection of measurement units. An Act of Parliament in 1824 created it from traditional English units.
The imperial system of units, also known as the British imperial system, was adopted in 1824 in Great Britain. It was replaced by the Metric system in 1965, which France introduced in the 1790s. The imperial measurement system paved the way for the United States‘ standard measurement system.
Before we started using metric measurements, we used imperial measurements with feet and pounds. Find out more in this Bitesize Primary KS2 Maths guide.
