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...
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Droving (redirect from Cattle drovers)
because some stock might be sold at intervening markets to other drovers. The new drovers would finish the delivery.[citation needed] Droving in Australia...
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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...
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Bealach na Bà (category United Kingdom road stubs)
Scottish Gaelic for Pass of the Cattle, as it was historically used as a drovers' road. The bealach is considered unsuitable for learner drivers and very large...
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Daughters Drovers Magazine, a monthly magazine The Drovers, a Chicago rock band Drover, a character from the Hank the Cowdog books Drover (company),...
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long implement to part thick undergrowth (for example at the edge of a drovers' road) when searching for lost sheep or potential predators. The innovation...
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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...
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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...
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informal housing following a 14.4-kilometre-long (9 mile) stretch of the drovers' road connecting La Rioja and Ciudad Real. The largest illegal settlement...
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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...
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pre-Columbian Mesoamerica. Stock route. Australian drovers' road. Sunken lane Toll road Toll roads in Great Britain. Trade routes. Via Imperii. Germany...
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dictionary. Cañada (Spanish pronunciation: [kaˈɲaða], Spanish for droveway, drovers' road) may refer to: Cañada de Gómez, a city in the province of Santa Fe Cañada...
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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...
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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...
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Tunnel (2025) Silvertown Tunnel (2025) Road pricing in the United Kingdom Toll roads in Europe Toll bridge Drovers' road, a route for droving livestock on...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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A474 road and the A4067 road. Pontardawe came into existence as a small settlement on the north-western bank of the RiverTawe, where the drovers' road from...
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the Way in the 1980s. The path uses many ancient roads, including ancient drovers' roads, military roads dating to the Jacobite uprisings and old coaching...
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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...
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Down the Road Wherever is the ninth solo studio album by British singer-songwriter and guitarist Mark Knopfler, released on 16 November 2018 by British...
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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...
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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...
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Right of way (redirect from Road used as a public path)
motorised. Corpse road – Aspect of burial practices Drovers' road – Route for driving livestock on foot Green lane (road) – Usually unsurfaced road, track or...
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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...
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Mounth connecting points south of Stonehaven to Aberdeen. This ancient drovers' road specifically connected the River Dee crossing (where the present Bridge...
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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...
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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...
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1855, forcing drovers north along the Kansas-Missouri border to Fort Scott. The 1866 drive was symptomatic of the continued obstacles drovers faced, including...
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