Farthing 103172 210945750 2008-05-08T02:09:28Z Benja 304401 Undo unsourced, nonsensical-sounding contribution; please put back with source if this is meant seriously '''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]] {{disambig}} [[he:פרת'ינג]] [[sv:Fjärding]]