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'''Farthing''' is an old word meaning a fourth or a [[quarter]]. In modern usage it could refer to:
*[[British farthing coin]], an old British coin valued one quarter of a [[British one penny coin (pre-decimal)|penny]]
*[[Irish farthing coin]], its counterpart among the predecimal [[coins of the Republic of Ireland]]
*'''farthing''', an old subdivision of various regions into four parts in [[northern Europe]], mainly the English county of [[Gloucestershire]], the [[Provinces of Sweden|Swedish province]] of [[Jämtland]] and the republic of [[Farthings of Iceland|Iceland]]. [[J. R. R. Tolkien]] also used the term for the subdivisions of his fictional country, the [[Shire (Middle-earth)|Shire]]
*''[[Farthing (novel)]]'', a novel written by [[Jo Walton]]
*''[[The Animals of Farthing Wood]]'', the first of a series of children's books written by [[Colin Dann]]
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