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Route for driving livestock on foot
transhumance). Many drovers' roads were ancient routes of unknown age; others are known to date back to medieval or more recent times. Drovers' roads are often
Drovers'_road
Practice of walking livestock over long distances
because some stock might be sold at intervening markets to other drovers. The new drovers would finish the delivery.[citation needed] Droving in Australia
Droving
2018 studio album by Mark Knopfler
tracks (including "Drovers' Road") are relegated to the bonus disc "Back In The Day". The LP version of the same box set adds "Drovers' Road", "Every Heart
Down_the_Road_Wherever
Road in Wester Ross in the Scottish Highlands
Scottish Gaelic for Pass of the Cattle, as it was historically used as a drovers' road, driving cattle to markets in Muir of Ord, Falkirk and even as far as
Bealach_na_Bà
Tourist location in North Yorkshire, England
on an old drovers road between Scotland and the south of England known as The Hambleton Drove Road. Most of the lower lying parts of the road have been
Sheepwash,_North_Yorkshire
Road in London
origin of Green Lanes is somewhat uncertain. It possibly originated as a drovers' road along which cattle were walked from Hertfordshire to London. Its origins
Green_Lanes_(London)
Person who moves livestock over long distances
boss drover were the livestock, the horses, and finally the men, as drovers were paid per head of stock delivered. Drovers were sometimes on the road for
Drover_(Australian)
Tool for managing livestock
long implement to part thick undergrowth (for example at the edge of a drovers' road) when searching for lost sheep or potential predators (such as wolves
Shepherd's_crook
Historical trail or road
pre-Columbian Mesoamerica. Stock route. Australian drovers' road. Sunken lane Toll road Toll roads in Great Britain. Trade routes. Via Imperii. Germany
Historic_roads_and_trails
Informal housing area in Madrid, Spain
informal housing following a 14.4-kilometre-long (8.9-mile) stretch of the drovers' road connecting La Rioja and Ciudad Real. The largest illegal settlement
Cañada_Real
Type of pastoralism
history until the 1950s and 1960s with the advent of alternative road transport. Drovers' roads, or tratturi, up to 100 metres (328 ft) wide and more than 100
Transhumance
Topics referred to by the same term
Look up drove in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Drove may refer to: Drovers' road, a route for driving livestock on foot Past tense verb of driving Drove
Drove
Long distance footpath in Scotland
maintenance of signs. The path uses many ancient roads, including ancient drovers' roads, military roads dating to the Jacobite uprisings and old coaching
West_Highland_Way
Ultra Low Emission Zone (London) Road pricing in the United Kingdom Toll roads in Europe Toll bridge Drovers' road, a route for droving livestock on
Toll_roads_in_Great_Britain
Ancient drovers' road in Aberdeenshire, Scotland
The Causey Mounth is an ancient drovers' road over the coastal fringe of the Grampian Mountains in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. This route was developed around
Causey_Mounth
Historical route in the southeastern United States
Road, also known, wholly or in part, as the Catawba Trail, the Drovers' Road, the Old Charleston Road, the Saluda Gap Road, the Saluda Mountain Road,
Old_Buncombe_Road
Unincorporated community in North Carolina, United States
area was first connected by a Drovers' road, a natural access into the interior of the Blue Ridge Mountains for drovers who were moving livestock, mostly
Bat_Cave,_North_Carolina
Topics referred to by the same term
Daughters Drovers Magazine, a monthly magazine The Drovers, a Chicago rock band Drover, a character from the Hank the Cowdog books Drover (company),
Drover
Village in North Yorkshire, England
road" in Wensleydale (the road on the opposite side of the valley to the A684). The road that goes through the Village is part of an old drovers road
Sedbusk
Former home of Roald Dahl
for several decades. The house is situated on Whitefield Lane, an old drovers' road on the outskirts of the village. It is currently privately owned but
Gipsy_House
Freshwater loch, natural, reservoir
loch's southern end, which were stopping points on a cattle drovers' road along the Road to the Isles, which linked up Lochaber and the Inner Hebrides
Loch_Treig
Human settlement in Wales
A474 road and the A4067 road. Pontardawe came into existence as a small settlement on the north-western bank of the River Tawe, where the drovers' road from
Pontardawe
District of London, England
defining the extent of the village. The Back Road, the modern Liverpool Road, was primarily a drovers' road where cattle would be rested before the final
Islington
Historic London road
turnpike trust road by-passing the northern boundaries of the built up area of London. The road was intended initially as a drovers' road, a route along
New_Road,_London
Topics referred to by the same term
the ancient drover's road called the Welsh Road The main road out of Manchester towards Chester, making up part of the A56 Chester Road North Ground
Chester_Road
Municipality in Castile-La Mancha, Spain
been traversed by a branch of the Cañada Real Conquense, an ancient drovers' road. Tomelloso shares its northern border with Pedro Muñoz, its eastern
Tomelloso
Thoroughfare in central London, England
May that year, and it was open to traffic by September. The road provided a new drovers' road for moving sheep and cattle to Smithfield Market avoiding
Euston_Road
the road, somewhat west of Maryculter. Near this location was the intersection of the ancient Elsick Mounth, that served as a medieval drovers' road and
B9077_road
Planted row of shrubs
and the Manchus Meikleour Beech Hedges Bocage Cactus fence Dead hedge Drovers' road Enclosure Green wall Hedgehog Shelterbelt Topiary Cherry, Stefan D.;
Hedge
The Tratturo Pescasseroli-Candela is a drovers' road running between Pescasseroli in Abruzzo and Candela in Apulia. It is the third longest such route
Tratturo_Pescasseroli-Candela
Alternate route of U.S. 74 in Western North Carolina
the early-mid 1840s, this road would later become a sand and gravel turnpike road known as the Drover's Turnpike or Drovers Road, used by early mountain
U.S. Route 74 Alternate (Asheville–Forest City, North Carolina)
U.S._Route_74_Alternate_(Asheville–Forest_City,_North_Carolina)
Street in Islington, London
with lanes across the western part of the parish. The Back Road was primarily a drovers' road where cattle would be rested before the final leg of their
Liverpool_Road
Spanish bread
Pan de cañada ("drovers' road bread" in Spanish), or simply cañada, is a variety of torta (flatbread) typical from the center and south of Aragon, in
Cañada_bread
British poet, writer and journalist (1924–2018)
destination by English second-home owners. Starting in 1977 with her book The Drovers’ Roads of Wales, Toulson was the author of several books on the subject of
Shirley_Toulson
Village in the Scottish Borders
the route of the main drovers' road for livestock headed to market in England, and is now a stop on the Cross Borders Drove Road long-distance path. List
Romannobridge
Occupation of unused land or derelict buildings in Spain
40,000 to 50,000 people live along a 15km track formerly used as a drovers' road, on the boundary shared by Madrid and Rivas Vaciamadrid. Parts of the
Squatting_in_Spain
River in Powys, Wales
Afon Irfon The drovers' road to Tregaron crosses the Afon Irfon via the Irish bridge at the foot of the 'Devil's Staircase' Location Country Wales County
Afon_Irfon
English: Forge Road minor road between Machynlleth and Staylittle SN837884 Montgomeryshire Powys 509m Pen Bwlch Llandrillo Drovers road between Llanarmon
List of mountain passes of Wales
List_of_mountain_passes_of_Wales
Legal authority to use a specific route
Corpse road – Road historically used to transport corpses to cemeteries Drovers' road – Route for driving livestock on foot Green lane (road) – Unpaved
Right_of_way
Historic house in North-East Scotland
Mounth connecting points south of Stonehaven to Aberdeen. This ancient drovers' road specifically connected the River Dee crossing (where the present Bridge
Elsick_House
Census-designated place in North Carolina, United States
area was first connected by a Drovers' road, a natural access into the interior of the Blue Ridge Mountains for drovers who were moving livestock, mostly
Gerton,_North_Carolina
Village in Oxfordshire, England
and a road between Little Tew and Hook Norton, to the north by a tributary of the River Cherwell and to the south by an ancient drovers' road called
Little_Tew
Human settlement in Wales
map of 1822. The bridge provided a safe crossing for drovers leading animals on a drovers road up the valley. Large stones in the river under the bridge
Abergwyngregyn
Market town in Warwickshire, England
roads: the main road between Coventry and Oxford (now the A423 road), the main road from Warwick to Northampton via Daventry, and the ancient drovers'
Southam
Town in Wales
bootmakers and hatters. The town was one of the main centres on the Welsh drovers' road which carried cattle and sheep on foot to the markets in England. A
Lampeter
Pioneer cattle trail from Texas to Missouri
1855, forcing drovers north along the Kansas-Missouri border to Fort Scott. The 1866 drive was symptomatic of the continued obstacles drovers faced, including
Texas_Road
most persuasive. To the west of Kincardine O’Neil the Capel Mounth, a Drovers' road led past Loch Muick and an eighteenth-century ruined hospital or traveller's
Hospitals in medieval Scotland
Hospitals_in_medieval_Scotland
that is at least 32 kilometres (20 mi) long and primarily off-road, or on quieter roads and tracks. This definition is consistent with that of the British
Long-distance footpaths in Scotland
Long-distance_footpaths_in_Scotland
Street in Wrexham, Wales
later became known as Beast Market Street due to its importance as a drovers' road towards Wrexham's Beast Market. Today, the street is known for its small
Charles_Street,_Wrexham
Village in Pembrokeshire, Wales
easterly peak in the Preseli Hills. The village straddles the A478 former drovers' road which runs from Cardigan in Ceredigion south to Tenby, is surrounded
Blaenffos
Long-distance footpath in England
include: Ravenscar Round Great Ayton Try a Trail Osmotherley and the Drovers Road The start in Helmsley Rievaulx Bridge Roseberry Topping Hummersea Cliff
Cleveland_Way
Nature reserve in Arkley, Greater London, England
Arkley in the London Borough of Barnet. Arkley Lane, off Barnet Road, is an old drovers' road. Located on the Barnet Plateau, it is now a quiet country lane
Arkley_Lane_and_Pastures
New Zealand writer
novel Drovers Road, a tale of family life on a New Zealand sheep station first published in London in 1953. She published two sequels to Drovers Road: The
Joyce_West
Mountain in Ceredigion, Wales
It is crossed, almost at the summit by an ancient drovers road now classified as the B4337 road which gave access from the northern parts of Ceredigion
Trychrug
Canadian guitarist
Glen Drover Quits Geoff Tate's Queensrÿche. Blabbermouth.net. Retrieved on November 26, 2012. Begai, Carl (March 19, 2013). "Glen Drover: On The Road To
Glen_Drover
Road in the London Borough of Islington
lighting and roads, the cottages declined into slums. Pentonville Prison was built in 1842 immediately to the south of the asylum. Cattle drovers passed along
Caledonian_Road,_London
Walking trail in County Wicklow, Ireland
the Way crosses the R725 road near Shillelagh. The trail enters forestry at Raheenakit before joining an old drovers' road, once used to herd sheep to
Wicklow_Way
Road in Argyll and Bute, Scotland
there by soldiers who built the original military road in 1753, now referred to as the Drovers' Road. The original stone fell into ruin and was replaced
A83_road
Village in Wiltshire, England
as two farms, Church Farm and Elcombe Farm. The Ox Drove, a medieval drovers' road from Dorset to Salisbury, crossed the south of the parish. In 1377,
Alvediston
Roadway usable only at low water levels
flowing over the road surface, and can be dangerous even after the flood has receded because silt, mud and debris left on the road by the water can reduce
Low-water_crossing
Type of ancient road that exploits the hard surface of hilltop ridges
efficiently. In medieval and later times, ridgeways in England were used as drovers roads. Since ridgeways were informal routes, and the rounded tops of many
Ridgeway_(road)
Town and community in Newport, Wales
out. The name of the former Drovers' Arms on Goldcroft Common bore witness to the ancient drovers' road on the old road from Malpas. It is thought that
Caerleon
Human settlement in Scotland
534 metres to the mainland before being herded to market along the drovers' road through Glen Beag, on to Kinlochhourn and then to the markets at Stirling
Glenelg,_Highland
Town in Scotland
the A803 between Kirkintilloch and Falkirk. The old drovers' road from Stirling, (the Tak Ma Doon Road), and the route south to Cumbernauld via Auchinstarry
Kilsyth
Thoroughfare for pedestrians
trackway Desire path Drovers road Footpaths of Gibraltar Ginnel Hiking Pedestrian village Pedestrian zone Pend Rail trail Sunken road Walkability "Trails
Footpath
Human settlement in Scotland
featured an early church, and a ford across the River Leven on the drovers' road to Glasgow. The first modern church was built close to the river in
Bonhill
Village in the West Midlands, England
across the River Tame. The Chester Road runs through the village following the line of a drovers' road called the Welsh Road, the origins of which are probably
Castle_Bromwich
Light, loose-fitting long coat
dusters to protect their clothes when riding in open motorcars on the dirt roads of the day. Western horsemen's dusters figured little in Western films until
Duster_(clothing)
Town in Herefordshire, England
hill and became primarily a wool-trading market town on an important drovers' road. Its location and historic character is the reason why so many waymarked
Kington,_Herefordshire
Water-powered mill in Scotland
situated slightly to the east of the ancient Causey Mounth trackway, a drovers' road established at least as early as the High Middle Ages. Bridge of Muchalls
Mill_of_Muchalls
often flattened or widened to accommodate animal traffic (hollow way or drover's road). Later, the travois, a frame used to drag loads, was developed. Animal-drawn
History_of_transport
Modernist residence in Scotland
changes to the lodge at the same time. Originally, access was by the old drovers' Road to the Isles from Rannoch, but in 1894 the West Highland Line was opened
Corrour_Lodge
Unpaved rural route wider than a footpath
ancient routes that have existed for millennia, such as hollow ways, drover's roads, ridgeways and even ancient trackways. Under modern public rights-of-way
Green_lane_(road)
1828 U.S. campaign issue
alone, 'when the Indians were most numerous and hostile.'" The old "drovers' road" from the Carolinas went to Knoxville through the Saluda Gap, and Knoxville
Andrew Jackson and the slave trade
Andrew_Jackson_and_the_slave_trade
England. Drovers and their herds would follow the line of Watling Street from Shrewsbury and over Cannock Chase to Brownhills, from where the Welsh Road ran
Welsh_Road
Road in the West Midlands
road runs all the way to Chester, if you stay on it long enough. Between Brownhills and Kenilworth it follows the line of the ancient drover's road called
A452_road
Topics referred to by the same term
Longacre, long acre or longacres may refer to: Drovers' road#Long acre, wide grassy road verges Long Acre, a street in London, England Longacre Square
Longacre
Village in Northumberland, England
ford across the river Tyne. The Street follows the line of a former drovers' road down which cattle were driven from Scotland to the market towns of northern
Broomhaugh
Village in Caerphilly, Wales
Llancaiach, in the Taff Bargoed Valley. The area was on a well known Drovers' road from the South Wales coast towards Merthyr Tydfil and onwards to Brecon
Nelson,_Caerphilly
Mounth from points south from Stonehaven to Aberdeen. This ancient drovers' road specifically connected the River Dee crossing (where the present Bridge
Saint_Ternan's_Church
Railroad Avenue. US 74A is overlapped by two North Carolina scenic byways: Drovers Road (Asheville to Bat Cave) and Black Mountain Rag (Bat Cave to Lake Lure)
Special routes of U.S. Route 74
Special_routes_of_U.S._Route_74
Market town and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England
remoteness Settle saw mostly local commerce. The old roads were pack horse trails and drovers' roads along hilltops because the valley was soft and swampy
Settle,_North_Yorkshire
Village in Ceredigion, Wales
listed bridge built in the 17th century. The bridge, part of an ancient drovers' road, may be wholly submerged at times of high water or heavy rain, necessitating
Llechryd
City in North Carolina, United States
Lamb (1999–2004). "The Early Settlement of Buncombe Country and the Drover's Road". Smith-McDowell House Museum. Archived from the original (text/.html)
Asheville,_North_Carolina
Human settlement in England
distance to the north-east. The manor itself was situated on the ancient drovers' road of Green Lanes. The last recorded occupancy of the manor was in 1881
Noel_Park
Main road in Islington, London
dairying and market gardens. The street itself served as part of the drovers' road, channelling livestock from the Midlands and North of England towards
Upper_Street
King to have it overturned. However, by the end of the century the drovers roads, stretching down from the Highlands through south-west Scotland to north-east
Economic_history_of_Scotland
Town and civil parish in Wiltshire, England
in Ireland were landed at Bristol and then herded across England on drovers' roads to Smithfield, London. One resting place for the pigs was at Black Dog
Calne
Historic road and footpath through the Scottish Highlands
a road and footpath between Sutherland and Caithness through the moorland in the northeastern Scottish Highlands. Noted as a post-medieval drovers' road
Ca_na_Catanach
Town in Tennessee, United States
meanwhile, was located at the intersection of two mid-19th century cattle drovers' roads. When the railroad constructed a station at this site in the late 1890s
Ethridge,_Tennessee
Town in Roman Britain
section of north–south road which became part of the Roman Watling Street and an east–west cattle drovers road (now a minor road called 'cow pastures')
Lactodurum
Unincorporated community in North Carolina, United States
area was first connected by a Drovers' road, a natural access into the interior of the Blue Ridge Mountains for drovers who were moving livestock, mostly
Bearwallow,_North_Carolina
Village and community in Carmarthenshire, Wales
some to mean Mountain of Angels). Llanboidy then became an important drovers road route in the Middle Ages and once had four taverns. It has a sports and
Llanboidy
over in 1733. The New Road running between Paddington and Islington was constructed beginning in 1756. Intended as a drover's road upon which livestock
18th-century_London
Drovers' road in Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Cryne Corse Mounth is an old droving road which ran south across the high ground from the Dee valley in Aberdeenshire, eastern Scotland. Much of the route
Cryne_Corse_Mounth
Elsick House. Approximately one kilometre inland is the noted medieval drovers' road known as the Causey Mounth. The geology of Grim Brigs is associated
Grim_Brigs
Mountain in Scotland
Glen Spean" at grid reference NN251807. Going south, following the old Drovers' road between Glen Spean and Loch Treig, going over the pass of the Lairig
Stob_Bàn_(Grey_Corries)
Long distance footpath in North Yorkshire, England
the Coast to Coast Path. At Glaisdale Station it turns south along a drovers road through woodland as follows the curve of the river to Egton Bridge where
Esk_Valley_Walk
Railway viaduct in Cumbria, England
Arten Gill Viaduct Arten Gill Viaduct; the drovers road and Artengill Beck are both easily recognisable Coordinates 54°16′05″N 2°20′42″W / 54.268°N 2
Arten_Gill_Viaduct
Authorised route for moving livestock
of the greatest drovers in Australian history. The Murranji Track in the Northern Territory, also known as the Ghost Road of the Drovers, was pioneered
Stock_route
DROVERS ROAD
DROVERS ROAD
Surname or Lastname
English and French
English and French : occupational name for a gatherer of tolls exacted for the right of passage across a bridge, ford, or other thoroughfare, from Middle English, Old French travers ‘passage’, ‘crossing’, from Old French traverser ‘to cross’.Northern Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Treabhair (see Trevor).A Travers from the Poitou region of France is documented in Quebec City in 1712, with the secondary surname Sansregret.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : patronymic from Diver.
Boy/Male
English American
Grove dweller. Used as both surname and given name. Famous bearer: American president Grover...
Surname or Lastname
English
English : occupational name for a driver of horses or oxen attached to a cart or plow, or of loose cattle, from a Middle English agent derivative of Old English drīfan ‘to drive’.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Grove 1.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Roberts.
Boy/Male
British, English
Wealthy Man
Girl/Female
British, English, Newzealand
Famous Spear
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Dower.
Boy/Male
American, British, English
Wanderer
Surname or Lastname
English
English : patronymic from the personal name Roger.Thomas Rogers (c.1587–1621), born in London, England, was among the Pilgrim Fathers who sailed on the Mayflower in 1620. He died during the first winter at Plymouth Colony, but his son Joseph survived and married, and was later joined in MA by his brother John. This name was subsequently brought to North America independently by many different bearers.
Male
English
English occupational surname transferred to forename use, derived from the Norman French word traverser, TRAVERS means "to cross," a name used for someone who was a "collector of bridge or road tolls." Compare with Travis.Â
Boy/Male
Australian, Chinese, Christian, French, Latin
Toll Taker; From the Crossroads; Collector of Tolls
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from the port of Dover in Kent, named from the river on which it stands, a Celtic name meaning ‘the waters’ (from the word which became modern Welsh dwfr ‘water’).North German : habitational name from Doveren in the Rhineland, of uncertain etymology; the origin is possibly Celtic and so related ultimately to 1, or a variant of Dove 4.
Surname or Lastname
English (of Norman origin)
English (of Norman origin) : habitational name from any of various places in northern France called Rivières, from the plural form of Old French rivière ‘river’ (originally meaning ‘riverbank’, from Latin riparia). The absence of English forms without the final -s makes it unlikely that it is ever from the borrowed Middle English vocabulary word river, but the French and other Romance cognates do normally have this sense.Common Americanized form of French Larivière. ire.
Surname or Lastname
Variant spelling of German Drewes.English
Variant spelling of German Drewes.English : topographic name, from Old English drÄf ‘drove’, ‘cattle track’.
Boy/Male
French
From the crossroads.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : occupational name for someone who drove herds of cattle across the country to a market, from an agent derivative of Old English drÄf ‘drove’, ‘herd’.
Boy/Male
Shakespearean
King Henry the Sixth, Part III' Lord Rivers, brother to Lady Grey. 'King Richard III' Earl...
Boy/Male
British, English, German
Bright Fame
DROVERS ROAD
DROVERS ROAD
Girl/Female
Indian, Telugu
Happiness
Girl/Female
Hindu
Boy/Male
Latin
Brother of Amphion.
Boy/Male
Muslim/Islamic
King
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from a place in Gloucestershire, so named from Old English hunta ‘hunter’ (perhaps a byname (see Hunt) + lēah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’).Scottish : habitational name from a lost place called Huntlie in Berwickshire (Borders), with the same etymology as in 1. Huntly in Aberdeenshire was named for a medieval Earl of Huntly (who took his title from the Borders place); it is not the source of the surname.
Boy/Male
Tamil
Chaaruchithra | சாரà¯à®šà®¿à®¤à¯à®°
One of the kauravas
Girl/Female
Biblical
Showing, casting forth, a cauldron.
Boy/Male
Muslim
Happier. Luckier.
Boy/Male
Muslim/Islamic
To surpass in skill
Female
English
Elaborated form of English Xylia, XYLINA means "forest-dweller."
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n.
One who, or that which, drives; the person or thing that urges or compels anything else to move onward.
n.
One who, or that which, proves.
n.
A cattle herder; a drover; specifically, one of an adventurous class of herders and drovers on the plains of the Western and Southwestern United States.
n.
A broad chisel used to bring stone to a nearly smooth surface; -- called also drove chisel.
n.
Any collection of irrational animals, moving or driving forward; as, a finny drove.
a.
Several; sundry; various; more than one, but not a great number; as, divers philosophers. Also used substantively or pronominally.
n.
One who drives much; a coach driver.
n.
The person who drives beasts or a carriage; a coachman; a charioteer, etc.; hence, also, one who controls the movements of a locomotive.
n.
One who drives cattle or sheep to market; one who makes it his business to purchase cattle, and drive them to market.
v. t. & i.
To turn into a proverb; to speak in proverbs.
v. i.
To write or utter proverbs.
n.
The grooved surface of stone finished by the drove chisel; -- called also drove work.
n.
A drama exemplifying a proverb.
n.
One who steals and drives away cattle or beasts by herds or droves.
v. t.
To name in, or as, a proverb.
n. pl.
Drawers.
n.
A coachman; a driver; especially, one who drives furiously.
v. t.
To provide with a proverb.
n.
A part that transmits motion to another part by contact with it, or through an intermediate relatively movable part, as a gear which drives another, or a lever which moves another through a link, etc. Specifically:
a.
Of or pertaining to proverbs; resembling a proverb.