Route originally laid out for horse-drawn carriages within a park, an important component of English 18th c. landscape-design, intended to provide changing views of the scenery, especially in work by Repton: it entered American usage in the second quarter of the 19th c., although Downing distinguished it from anapproach which led from a public road to the house, and a drive was a way along which visitors could be conveyed around an estate. (Curl & Wilson, 2016)
