Droving road
A broad track used for walking livestock across country to fairs and markets.
Also: drove road, drove way, stock route
Droving roads were the long-distance routes of the cattle trade, broad grassy ways that let herds graze as they moved and that avoided tolls and enclosed farmland. Many in Scotland, Wales and England can still be traced as green lanes and walking routes, with inns and stances where drovers rested herds overnight. Spain and Australia had their own networks: Spain's cañadas reales, protected royal routes for transhumant herds and flocks, are among the oldest, and Australia's travelling stock routes are still used in droughts. Place names with Drove, Drovers or Ox in them often mark the old ways.