Old Shaftesbury Drove, Harnham

The Old Shaftesbury Drove is more of a path than a road ¹.

It runs most of the way from Salisbury to the town of Shaftesbury, which is about 20 miles away, by road ².

A ‘drove’, in this context, is a path or track used by farmers to move livestock from one place to another, on foot ³.

In the case of Old Shaftesbury Drove, I would guess, farmers would be taking sheep to market at either Salisbury or Shaftesbury, or even to London.

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Footnotes

1. Old Shaftesbury Drove, Salisbury:: OS grid SU1328 :: Geograph British Isles – photograph every grid square! [↩]
2. http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=salisbury&daddr=shaftesbury&hl=en&geocode=&mra=ls&sll=51.068936,-1.88169&sspn=0.563505,1.223602&ie=UTF8&z=11 [↩]
3. Drovers’ road – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [↩]