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droving

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droving
1. moving cattle or sheep from one place to another by driving them slowly on foot along roadways or stock routes.
2. in less temperate climates the same exercise conducted by truck is called droving.


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The work will provide accounts of the way in which these routes have developed from their earliest incarnations as prehistoric tracks or Roman roads, through their use as smuggling and droving routes into the modern period, when some have become major trunk routes while others have remained cross-country tracks.
 
 
 
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