droveway

drove +‎ way

droveway (plural droveways)

1. A road or track along which livestock are (or historically were) regularly driven.

   Synonyms: drove, drove road, drovers' road, drovers' way; driftway, driveway (uncommon)

   Coordinate term: cowpath

   • 2015, Stephen Rippon, Chris Smart, Ben Pears, The Fields of Britannia: Continuity and Change in the Late Roman and Early Medieval Landscape, OUP Oxford, →ISBN, page 160:

     In the first […] , a series of droveways ran north from the coastal marshes, across lighter soils, as far as the edge of the claylands that were open pasture, while a further series of droveways ran from a series of upland commons across the gravel hills to the northern edge of the clayland pastures: […]