A vocabulary of landscape — a landscape of words
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drove road
A wide path along which livestock were herded to market, sometimes across hundreds of miles. In Spain: cañada. In Scotland: A stance marks where drovers halted their cattle for the night. Drove roads are among the oldest long-distance routes in the landscape, older than most of the towns they connect.
Etymology
Drove, from Old English drāf (“a driving, a herd driven”), from drīfan (“to drive”) + road. A road defined by its use — the way cattle were driven to market. Also called a drovers’ road.