From The Warminster Herald, Saturday 5 March 1870:
Some woodmen being at the Bath Arms, Crockerton, on Wednesday evening, and their conversation turning on the subject of hurdle making, one of them, Henry Edwards, of the same place, made a bet that he would make a hurdle out of four “rods” which he would get from Cricket’s Wood, the others maintaining that he could not do so, even if he took two hours in which to do the work, as the “rods” would take so much time in splitting. Edwards made the hurdle, however, within an hour, and had a “rod” to spare, thus winning the bet.