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Message: <blockquote data-quote="NewJeffCT" data-source="post: 5636009" data-attributes="member: 10784">I've watched a couple of movies over the past few days that had me scratching my head on distances.The first was "Season of the Witch" with Nicholas Cage.  The movie was okay, but early on, they mentioned traveling 300 leagues to some remote monastery.  However, the person showing them the map said the journey should take 6 days.  The last I checked, one league is almost 3.5 miles and over 5.5km.  So, you are talking about a journey in Medieval times of over 1,000 miles in six days... is there an ancient measurement of leagues that is different than 3.5 miles per league?  Maybe the person making the movie thought it was 3.5 leagues per mile, which would make a 90 miles journey in 6 days more reasonable (considering they had a cart transporting a prisoner)Then, I was watching "The Eagle" (haven't finished it yet), but they said how they took the injured guy (Marcus Aquila?) back from his fort for 200 leagues (700 miles), but were still in Britain.  WTF?  I searched online and the distance from Wick, Scotland (NE Scotland) to Plymouth, England (SW England) was 558 miles.  How does one travel for 200 leagues and still stay in England?  Especially since the fort where the guy got injured was somewhere south of Hadrian's Wall, I'm guessing, which is well south of Wick in Scotland.Can anybody enlighten me?</blockquote>