Whats the true size of 1/8

What is the area indicated in the title deed / certificate of lease?

@XSK --our education needs serious fixing!

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It therefore follows that 1 acre is approx 400 ft by 100 ft
Do the math..
#10 pieces of 50 x 100 = 500 ft x 100 ft is this equal to an acre?

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Why don't we work in metres as suggested by the previous thread on this subject. Your 0.4 hectares isn't very helpful. You need to get the actual dimensions from deed plan or better just do the measurements from a map of the area or physically.

For arguments sake, assuming that it is a rational rectangle of approx 44m x 90m

You can easily get 10 plots of 18m by 18m with a 6m access road in between. Corner ones will be slightly bigger. In your world this would work out to something like 60ft by 60ft (or area of 3600 square feet) slightly less than your 50'x100'

But again... it is not desirable to have square portions.

It all depends on lay out of the original portion.

My quest is, how does an acre and quarter make 16 plots of 40x80? I have done the math till sleep caught up with me.

This confusion arises from the fact that we mix two measurement standards - the imperial (feet; acres) and the metric (metres; hectares).

Kenyan surveyors do their work in the metric standard. This is why you title deed will indicate the size in hectares (ha). The so-called eighth of an acre is actually surveyed as 15m by 30m. This makes it exactly 0.045ha.

If you convert this to feet, you will get 49ft, 2.55in by 98ft,5.1in.

Clearly, '50x100' is an approximation - actually an over approximation!

Regarding access roads, I thought the minimum width is 9m; not 6m...