Drove road

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A Drove road (or droveway or greenway) is a road or track specifically used by drovers or herders to drive their animals to market.

Drove roads are often wider than similar roads in a particular locality. In the United Kingdom, where original drove roads have been converted into single carriageway metalled roads, unusually wide verges are often left on either side of the road. Thus wide verges are often an indicator that a particular road may have once been used as route for moving livestock.