(n.) A narrow path or way for pedestrains only; a footway.
Example Sentences:
(1) While it’s not unknown to see such self-balancing mini scooters on the pavement, under legal guidance reiterated on Monday by the Crown Prosecution Service all such “personal transporters”, including hoverboards and Segways , are banned from the footpath.
(2) Cameras have been set up by the zoo to track his movements and footpaths in the area closed by the county council.
(3) Where the cycle track is signed to the left, continue on the footpath straight ahead, which runs beside the main railway - this will take you to Didcot station.
(4) The footpaths I followed became swamped with knapweed, bramble and nettle.
(5) Paddle on the Riviera Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Alamy A half-hour walk from the tiny railway station at Cap d’Ail in the Alpes-Maritimes, a coastal footpath runs underneath a line of art nouveau and art deco villas and round a headland before Mala Plage comes into view.
(6) The four people arrested in the Gloucestershire cull zone were held on suspicion of aggravated trespass after police responded to reports of horns being blown and individuals straying from a public footpath.
(7) And if you dare challenge a cyclist for riding on a footpath more often than not you are met with a tirade of verbal abuse.
(8) Describing itself as “probably the most famous pub in England”, it sits in a small valley just beside the Ridgeway, an ancient footpath considered to be Britain’s oldest road.
(9) Getting there: To reach the beach you must abandon your car in the village and take one of two footpaths down to the beach (10 minutes).
(10) At the main road turn left and after 25m turn right down a narrow footpath.
(11) I trudged for hours on footpaths without seeing anyone.
(12) The footpath cuts low between grassy banks that immediately recall classic canal topography; two cast-iron bridges, still with their towing paths intact, complete the illusion.
(13) "The boy from Bassendean" is among more than 150 notable West Australians celebrated with a plaque inlaid in the footpath of Perth's St Georges Terrace.
(14) The biggest danger on our roads is motor traffic, not cyclists.” Freeman argued that cycling on footpaths was a danger to pedestrians and that cycling at night without lights posed a danger to all road users.
(15) My grandad used to walk me home from my countryside primary school, along the footpath that led to his council bungalow.
(16) As the people farms begin to dot the landscape like melanomas, locally the numbers of beds in the local public and private hospitals do not increase; local footpaths remain largely inaccessible to the motorised scooters and wheelchairs increasingly used by the ageing and medical and support services for the aged and ageing do not keep pace with the size of the population planned by the people farmers.
(17) Another disused railway line near Kenilworth was now an urban “Greenway”: the companionship of cyclists and dog‑walkers was welcome after my discomfort on the deserted, brambled-choked footpaths of rural England.
(18) "In some places, it's as simple as moving fences to unlock stretches of footpaths on the river," she says.
(19) People have no concept of allowing others to pass beside them on the footpath – assuming you can find a spare inch on the footpath amongst the teeming hordes; traffic is rampant, the MRT always overcrowded, nobody looks where they’re going because they are too busy reading phones, noise of traffic and strange food smells, stifling heat and commercial pressure from advertising everywhere.
(20) While the bridge was being built footpaths were used by workers to reach certain areas and heights.
Towpath
Definition:
(n.) A path traveled by men or animals in towing boats; -- called also towing path.
Example Sentences:
(1) Its buildings, arranged around a sociable courtyard and a slice of towpath, also nourish a community of businesses that sustain between 250 and 300 jobs, all of which could go if the site’s new owner, Galliard Homes, has its way.
(2) No wonder there is such anticipation on the towpath.
(3) Almost every month, new kinds of data are incorporated into Google Maps: in June, it was 2,000 miles of British canal towpaths, complete with bridges and locks; it was bike lanes .
(4) Yet when I look in the mirror at my towpath-pounding legs, my prominent collarbones, swelling biceps and flat, gravel-hardened feet, I am looking at my father's body.
(5) Once the route joins the Wey Navigation, it follows the towpath right into Guildford and almost to the station.
(6) We used to climb trees and track courting couples, and dig animal traps on the towpath and cover them up with grass to disguise them,” he recalled.
(7) Brian Sharpe, editor of Towpath Talk magazine, said: "There is a lot of pressure get out of this mess, and I think it is a mess.
(8) Then you had to slither along a treacherous towpath, scramble over huge pipes pumping unimaginable quantities of dirty floodwater into the heavily swollen river Parrett, and slide down the bank to the lane outside Steve’s home.
(9) The hungry eye was guided by fragments towards a poetic whole: a few weeds summoned up a towpath, a single flat created a public house.
(10) You don’t have to be a boater to appreciate London’s navigable waterways but living like this has encouraged me to explore places along less well-trodden towpaths.
(11) The product of another era An interesting route to the New Era estate is along the towpath of the Grand Union canal, which in this stretch separates Islington from Hoxton and (at one time) the middle from the working classes.
(12) Take a right fork for the Thames Path, which passes through a wooded area and across a field, onto the towpath, where you turn left and follow the river.
(13) I don’t believe in the Pusher , the shadowy serial killer rumoured to stalk the towpath, but the junkies put me right off.