Acattle creep is a small, field-to-field access forfarm animals, usually to allow passage beneath an obstacle such as aroad,canal, orrailwayembankment. Those under roads or railways may be termedunderpasses.
As they are intended primarily forcattle or other livestock, cattle creeps usually have a low head height and are uncomfortable for humans to use.
OnDartmoor, in south-west England, the termsheep creep is used to describe a purposely constructed gap in the base of adrystone wall, commonly topped with a granite lintel. The gap allows sheep to pass from field to field, but is deliberately too small for cattle or ponies.[1] Similarly inCornwall small gaps are constructed inCornish hedges to allow sheep to pass through to graze the cliff-tops. In order to prevent sheep passing through the gap is covered using a large slab of slate.
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