Miles can be confusing, I think that's 1760 yards to the mile but when we start to talk about chains , poles etc I forget..8 furlongs to a mile? ( I'm not googling. It!)
I don't think the arcane stuff like chains, furlongs, and bushels, pecks etc were ever widely used. They were used in particular situations - for example distances between two places on the railway were measured in chains for some reason. Horse racing used furlongs.
But in general it was distance in miles, yards, feet and inches. Weights in tons, pounds and ounces. Volume in gallons and pints and gills.
The thing is, yards, pounds, and pints were (are) really useful measures. Just the right amount. Metric is easier in the respect it is all based on a decimal system, but the same distances, weights and volumes are always numbers like 454 grams or 914 millimetres.
Fahrenheit is a much more precise temperature scale than Centigrade, and (maybe by accident) has a scale of 100° in which most of us live our lives. Anything colder than 0°F is extremely cold, anything above 100°F is extremely hot. Personally, I think the climate change debate ignores the fact that temperatures were measured almost everywhere in the west used Fahrenheit up to the 1980s. The temperature was always rounded down to the nearest whole degree. The max-min thermometers used in weather stations were pretty old and inaccurate too. It's easy to see a way that data deceives scientists.