How To Use Footpath In A Sentence

‘The council operates a priority order for gritting roads and footpaths,’ a spokesman said.
It was warm and sunny, and we followed fields and footpaths, finally stopping in a wood. Times, Sunday Times
Anyone who refuses to pay an on-the-spot fine for allowing their pet to foul a footpath, for example, could be taken to court and find their name in the newspapers.
They turned when they got to the footpath, and began walking down the alley to where they had parked the car.
It wasn't the hours of toil, sweat and petrol clearing the footpath which concerned me, but the wasted wheat.

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The West Country is the part of Britain most visited by walkers and nature lovers, but until now they have had to make do with a patchy network of footpaths and coastal walks.
She wondered whether the change would qualify that area for more public lighting and footpaths.
Not one man but two armed with cudgels have spotted us from the High Street and are sprinting toward the footpath. Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer
Mayo County Council improved the footpaths, kerbing and road system in the village in 1988.
Stone slabs were removed and the footpaths were cemented.
We stood on the footpath and waited for a gap in the traffic.
A rambler had left the footpath for a picnic, despite signs saying ‘Please remain on the footpath’.
This news is particularly unwelcome as the footpath network is already in some trouble. Times, Sunday Times
Also, in London I recently walked along a road where right next to the quite narrow footpath is a building whose walls are festooned with notices saying that it is a prohibited place (I passed within a foot of at least one notice), yet numerous people were walking along that road and regularly do so. David Cameron's reversion to type will help Lib Dems
It wasn't the hours of toil, sweat and petrol clearing the footpath which concerned me, but the wasted wheat.
The footpath got narrower, the going got tougher. Times, Sunday Times
Roads and footpaths became skating rinks yesterday as temperatures dipped below zero - again.
While police presence was a deterrent to hooliganism at the beach or Island grounds where the trade fair is being held, the same could not be said about the MTC buses with footpath travel and it was a day of endless hooting of horns.
The modern generation knows about lounging in the Lakes and dallying in the Dales, but very little about our local footpaths.
Mr Robertshaw, a retired farmer, said he would continue to allow the shooting rights and the footpath could be closed on those three to four occasions a year when the shoot was held.
Walkers are calling for action to clear overgrowth on a footpath from Calne to Beckhampton.
All footpaths will have proper, cement concrete block curb stones.
Footpaths provide a safe environment for pedestrians and should be respected by all.
Some years ago a footpath was installed from Carnforth to the outskirts of Nether Kellet but stopped at a point where the road enters the village on the brow of a hill and round a sharp, narrow bend.
The creation of a buffer and the widening of the footpaths using the green areas will narrow the street.
I noticed horses had been using it - tut-tut, it's a footpath not a bridleway.
‘Don't spit your chuddy out on the footpath,’ she says, and I have to tell her that it's gum, not chuddy, a sidewalk, not a footpath, and that everybody does it.
There is a public footpath and small brook between our boundary wall and the hedge. Times, Sunday Times
Follow this footpath and you'll eventually hit the road.
Villagers are concerned for the safety of people walking on narrow footpaths next to narrow roads.
The fence runs the length of the footpath.
The provision was only intended to make it an offence to drive motors on footpaths or bridleways, such as ridgeways or ways across common land.
All along the footpaths council signs threatened fines for skateboard riding and roller blading.
By the time I got to the drystone wall that divides the plot from the public footpath and the beck, the sobs had changed to screams of rage.
To gain access to the car park itself one has to traverse a miscellany of surfaces grass verge, lightweight kerbing and footpath and then, would you believe, one is confronted by two sets of sleeping policemen within yards of one another.
After four hours of climbing the near vertical mountain footpath, the headache had matured into a persistent thump with each heartbeat.
Landscape projects include a major footpath and bridleway improvement program, establishing a network of cycle routes, tree planting and hedge laying, heathland management and survey and maintenance work on the coastal National Trail. Dorset and East Devon Coast, United Kingdom
This is favourite area for ramblers that use the footpaths next to this land, also birdwatchers, anglers and pleasure boaters along the canal.
Tonight, though, the playing-fields were quiescent and harmless, and the only pedestrian on either footpath was Isobel Clarke. MUSIC FOR BOYS
There was indeed a bend in the road and a footpath to the right. The Times Literary Supplement
They should be in their wellies, walking footpaths, visiting rural attractions and declaring the countryside open for business.
We kept to little-used footpaths and half-deserted streets, always stopping to look around corners before venturing forward. The Book of Unholy Mischief
Others were recklessly digging great holes in the footpath between the poplars, and ramming the earth into bags, or nailing together great pieces of driftwood, fished from the river, to form a screen behind the sandbags on the parapet and hold them against the pressure of the current, while carts kept rumbling in and unloading piles of stone and rubble against the wall and screen. The Paris Flood of 1910 | Edwardian Promenade
Sculpted berms here, geometrically-patterned rows of exhaust stacks there, mastaba-shaped radar facility right over there, chalked footpaths everywhere. Boullée in North Dakota
Footpaths worn into loose rock on mountainsides can be as narrow as the width of two hiking boots, with thousand-foot drop-offs that can send any stumbling climber into an uncontrollable slide to icy glacial rivers.
And it lies within a stone's throw of the most intensively used footpath on the North York Moors.
He says the girls were on grass beyond the footpath, and well clear of the roadway.
The kerbing for the new footpaths has been put in place recently.
This time is was a mother who was walking her dog along the footpath.
There was indeed a bend in the road and a footpath to the right. The Times Literary Supplement
She dressed quickly, put on rubber boots and a waterproof, and set off along the footpath leading to Benbury Woods.
Turn right at the footpath sign. Times, Sunday Times
The unwary movement caused her foot to slip on the footpath made muddy by the overnight rain.
I was actually removing an obstacle from a footpath. Times, Sunday Times
I recall another footpath near Worcester, Massachusetts; it leads up from the low meadows into the wildest region of all that vicinity, Tatesset Hill. Oldport Days
I've never been arrested for stenciling political messages on footpaths.
The landscaping scheme will link in with a new footpath and cycleway at the back of the Fox and a new bus waiting area on Holgate Road.
We have put up notices in infected forests urging people to stick to footpaths and keep dogs on a short lead. Times, Sunday Times
Nancy wander for hour aimlessly along the intertwining road and footpath.
Both have footpaths which have been widened over recent years to accommodate pedestrians.
As a keen walker I enjoy not only long distance walks but also local walks around the footpaths of Keighley.
It seems to me no footpaths are easy to walk on after the horrendous non-stop rain we've suffered.
The survey, completed in April 2000, highlighted a number of blocked footpaths, inadequate stiles, gates and fences.
The footpath was a throng of people jostling for space, drifting onto the road, cars honking. The Legacy
As I admire the beauty of the Three Peaks from a distance I notice the visible scars of the footpaths, which is a testament to the erosion caused by thousands of walking boots.
Already vast stretches are now joined up by footpaths and coastal walks. Times, Sunday Times
If there are any savings, hopefully we will be able to spend it on mending more footpaths.
Perhaps by creating more cycle routes, cyclists will be less inclined to ride on the footpaths and pedestrians will feel safer.
From here a footpath runs north, through a narrow defile between Meall na h-Aodainn Moire and Creag Bhreac past Loch a'Choire and up steep slopes to the summit ridge.
A plaque commemorating his conservation work in the town adorns a wall on a footpath running beside the River Aire.
Increasing numbers of walkers are attracted by the network of well-marked footpaths on the Portofino promontory to the west - a wild, rocky place bristling with myrtle, gorse, hawthorn and ilex.
At the end of the road a signpost declares the way: ‘Public Footpath by Gipsy Glen to Yarrow’.
There was indeed a bend in the road and a footpath to the right. The Times Literary Supplement
However, every footpath near my home has fallen trees, drainage problems, walls down, broken fences, gates and stiles.
Woe betide the person who doesn't cut back their overhanging vegetation as it severely compromises the safety of tall pedestrians with hats who use a particular footpath to mass.
They also moved a public footpath that passed right by their front door. Times, Sunday Times
Residents have been complaining about the sound of engines and bikes whizzing past them as they walk on footpaths.
Detectors were installed to monitor pedestrians only on the crosswalk but not on the footpath.
He said the grant was used for programmes such as filling potholes, repairing pavements and improving footpaths in the borough.
In addition to snowboarding that week we snowshoed and hiked along some of the 250km of footpaths that this mountain area provides. Tara Stiles: Why Aren't The Swiss Fat?
Some locals argued that this would mean cars left on footpaths or grass verges. Times, Sunday Times
Tyrrel turned away from the man, and hastily left the hotel — not, however, by the road which led to the Aultoun, but by a footpath among the natural copsewood, which, following the course of the brook, intersected the usual horse-road to Shaws – Castle, the seat of Mr. Mowbray, at a romantic spot called the Buck-stane. Saint Ronan's Well
The other day while walking along the footpath opposite the park I noticed seven or eight drakes surrounding a female duck and her ten ducklings.
However, every footpath near my home has fallen trees, drainage problems, walls down, broken fences, gates and stiles.
A Cornish Coastal Footpath has been opened to give the public access to walk along the cliffs.
Hides and footpaths give close views and there are listening posts and a tap rail for handicapped visitors.
Follow the footpath and you'll eventually hit the road.
A temporary road for southbound traffic has been built and a footpath put in place.
A programme of social events is now being planned over the next eight months to pay for Victorian-style lamps to be installed along the seawall footpaths.
Site entrances and the footpath network will be improved and new seating installed.
A highway for this purpose is defined as including footpaths, bridleways and byways.
A footpath leads down to a small beach and there are fine sand beaches nearby. Times, Sunday Times
I hope this is a public footpath and we're not trespassing on someone's land.
The West Highland Way is second only to the Pennine Way in the hall of fame of British long-distance footpaths.
Take your grey bin, green bin, blue bag and green box and place them on the footpath outside your property, and leave them there, seven days a week.
The team noticed portions of some footpaths were worn up to 3 meters deep by people who had trod them over the centuries approaching some of the cemeteries.
It also objects to the closure of the public footpath running alongside the river wall at the prom which could stay shut for 18 months while the work is carried out.
This might help to remove the mess left by them along the footpaths.
This will certainly be a great amenity as the existing bridge at the eastern end of Athea is positively dangerous, especially for schoolchildren who use it regularly as it has no footpath.
In decent weather and with the longer daylight hours of summer you could continue on the ridge as far as the col before Benshaw Hill where a footpath drops down directly to Kingledoors.
We can't follow the river all the way, because there's no footpath, so we take a nice loop up the west flank of the valley, coming down at more riverside meadows and daffs.
Footpaths are shown on the map as dotted red lines.
The placing of these signs on the edge of a public footpath is surely a safety hazard in an area used by children and elderly people, especially on dark nights.
The old footpath skirts around the village.
Two workmen are busy jackhammering the footpath.
The race is run over 22 miles and takes competitors through open moorland and on farm tracks, footpaths and roads.
Opponents are also worried that the wall could affect a public footpath running along the edge of the property by the shore. Times, Sunday Times
Tonight, though, the playing-fields were quiescent and harmless, and the only pedestrian on either footpath was Isobel Clarke. MUSIC FOR BOYS
Mr Rose James F Frad of Wilton Avenue, Chiswick Lane, was summoned for wheeling a bicycle on the footpath.
Seven walkers met at Colwall Station on a warm and sunny afternoon for a five-mile walk, mainly along footpaths and lanes.
From there a steep descent north took us to the edge of another plantation where a well-used footpath dropped down through the trees to a broad track.
I followed a French long-distance footpath and stayed in mountain huts or gîtes.
Some locals argued that this would mean cars left on footpaths or grass verges. Times, Sunday Times
It seems the local force is keeping a close eye on pavement pedallers after complaints from pedestrians that the footpaths are unsafe.
There is a public footpath and small brook between our boundary wall and the hedge. Times, Sunday Times
As you look for a stile or a gate, anything to let you on to the footpath, you realise that the post stands behind both a hedge and a chicken-wire fence - reminding you why ramblers and farmers have never exactly been bezzy mates.
Footpaths are shown on the map as dotted red lines.
The case concerned a public footpath running between two cottages before debouching onto a main road.
He said Love Lane was an historic footpath which was said to be the ancient way from the Forest of Galtres to the City of York.
The rough footpath passes dangerously close to the edge of some of these gorges, and a slip on the muddy trail could well mean a headlong plunge into the boiling waters below.
Close to the waterside a footpath led off downstream, and beside it the abbey's gardens lay neatly arrayed all along the rich plain, and three or four brothers were pricking out plants of cabbage and colewort. The Rose Rent
The sad state grips not just roads and bylanes but even those few footpaths these areas have.
He lands in - perhaps he lives there - an ancient and gigantic fig tree, and in the morning proves that your sighting was no product of a late night out, he having spattered the footpath below with great dollops of ordure.
Her evidence was that as they walked in the park, the appellant steered her off the footpath onto the grass.
A leading footpath campaigner said the motorcycle trials was a separate issue but still needed to be considered by the inspector.
From there it is a straightforward, if steep, scramble on a scree-covered footpath all the way to the summit.
Everything was either already green - like a snake, bright as a blade of grass, sidling across the footpath - or in the process of becoming so.
Lithia Park offers footpaths through a dazzling array of terrain.
They would surely not be associated with the minority of hikers who leave gates open, stray from the footpaths or let their unattended dogs worry sheep but these people do exist.
Some footpaths are closed during the shooting season.
I felt my body stiffen painfully as I relived the memory of my best friend being thrown onto the concrete footpath.
We went down the footpath to her house between a small army of native boys who were cutting the coarse grass with scythes, known in West Africa as pangas.
They also recommend hunters check out the land during daylight hours to identify public footpaths and other obvious dangers.
But coastal defence works for the area are being brought forward after experts found the cliffs were being weakened by the waves, leading to landslips which are threatening to destroy a section of the Cleveland Way footpath.
All this while shops in the CBD were wasting thousands of litres hosing the footpath.
She also had the cheek to question our lack of footpaths!
Yoland is making her way slowly along the footpath on the arm of a nurse.
The monastery is an hour away by footpath.
On the lawn by the footpath was a motorcycle, the engine still rumbling. Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series
Members of the environment group are now surveying footpaths again for stiles that have become dysfunctional since the last survey.
A few years ago there was a flasher exposing himself in the footpath but nothing nasty.
So footpath 29 lay for the most part unvisited -- except by Joe. SANDS OF TIME
As the road, at this point, was frequently flooded a raised causeway or footpath was built to give access.
‘Some of the shafts are 360 feet deep and although those near the footpaths are fenced off and protected with metal grids, the majority which are scattered all over are not,’ he said.
These volunteers spent a few hours removing the sand from the footpath and clearing the seaweed from the slipway leading onto the beach.
The sewage overflows from a manhole on a footpath in the second road of the estate.
A diversion is planned for users of the footpath so that it runs to the south of Marine Lake.
Footpaths provide a safe environment for pedestrians and should be respected by all.
So you'd think people might be a little bit more circumspect, especially on that stretch of footpath.
I grinned broadly and stepped off the footpath, slowly making my way across the grass, stepping into the large wooden-plank-outlined square of tanbark, and heading straight for the swings.
Now a review of the city's cleaning of gullies, gutters, footpaths and back lanes in terraced streets has prompted commercial services officers to study the issue.
The unwary movement caused her foot to slip on the footpath made muddy by the overnight rain.
Cyclists should not be on footpaths and pavements which are not for their use.
The footpath follows the east shore of the loch to where easy slopes lead to the Lairig Torran, an ancient transhumance route from Dalmally.
I've seen plenty of them, dawdling down the footpath, checking out the gardens, smiling away at everyone.
Park staff will be posting closure notices where footpaths and bridleways meet with the public highway.
The stairways and zigzag footpaths I hiked up on my way to the community were cut into the stone cliffs and mountainsides, clearly in ancient times, and the terracing represented countless generations of hard work.
In my experience of hikers, they rarely stick to a footpath anyway regardless of its width.
The provision was intended to make it an offence to drive motors on footpaths or bridleways.
After long delays the work has commenced again on the footpaths along the Charlestown Road.
If you did walk along the footpath, taxis would curb-crawl in an attempt to get a fare.
Forest paths, moorland tracks and riverside footpaths, with some short sections along quiet country lanes.
A furore over footpaths is brewing in a South Lakeland village after taxpayers learned it could be nearly 10 years before decaying routes are repaired.
Have they vanished along with footpaths, with grasslands and clearings, with nature?
Dismayed residents of Beach Road, Canvey, reckoned Castle Point Council pulled the plug on the scheme to repair drains and replace wonky footpaths, after running out of money.
When the rain stopped I was walking my dachshund along the river footpath.
Footpaths across North and East Yorkshire were shut - with businesses in York losing millions of pounds as tourists stayed away in droves.
However, book-sellers on the opposite footpath are not perturbed by the incident.
Follow a footpath and see how it's shown on the map as a green dotted line. Times, Sunday Times
Arena footpath also installed the fluorescent lamp that conceals type, add the faint illuminate of other line lamp, build the site a your person to confuse drunk atmosphere.
The air is filled with a dingo's howl, the footpaths alive with the poisonous snakes on their slithering nocturnal hunt.
With his feet planted firmly on the footpath of Disney's 1964 film, Mary Poppins, Bert (Dick Van Dyke) incants the magic words which he assures us, will transport him and the children into the world within the picture he has drawn.
Just wander round, keeping to the public footpaths and tracks, seeing where you end up.
There was frost on the ground and a flurry of snow in the air as I set off from the car park and along the footpaths winding through woodlands and close to a meander of the River Calder.
The place and its birds can be enjoyed from a public footpath just beyond the boundary of the reserve. Times, Sunday Times
As a keen walker I enjoy not only long distance walks but also local walks around the footpaths of Keighley.
The girl was walking along a footpath by the side of the road towards Swinton when the accident happened.
It was proposed to extend the footpath to the creamery boreen to allow for a safe walking path.
The footpath outside the front of our house is flanked on both sides (is that tautology?) with low bushes.
It seems to me no footpaths are easy to walk on after the horrendous non-stop rain we've suffered.
She turned around and scampered back across the footpath to the gate, squeezed under and crept to the dish.
The man was killed as he walked along a footpath between Westdale Drive and Westdale Road, Pudsey.
The traffic bottleneck at Main Street, which has forced motorists to drive onto the footpath, has been a bone of contention for some considerable time.
And that much of the line is now a footpath leading to the city. Times, Sunday Times
The Sweet Track was essentially a narrow footpath made from split planks raised and supported on timbers driven into the peat. BRITAIN BC: Life In Britain and Ireland before the Romans
People of all ages stood on the footpaths cheering on the vehicles and their drivers as they passed through the towns generously donating into the collection boxes.
These barges were often towed by horses or mules from footpaths on the shore. America Past and Present
He further points out that parking on footpaths is somewhat of a nuisance in some areas of the town and suggests the use of bollards in some sensitive areas would prevent this.
These were being taken off the footpath by using a portable blower to blow them on to the road where, when wet, they became a danger to two wheel riders.
I looked down at the grey footpath, stepping over the cracks in the pavement.
We disturb wildlife, pollute air, drop litter and literally wear out the footpaths.
Pendulous sedges crowded the footpath, fungi sprouted in brown, black, orange and white.
The footpath runs along the canal.
I climbed a stile, stepped onto uneven turf and followed what I thought must be the route of the footpath I identified.
Lithia Park offers footpaths through a dazzling array of terrain.
They asked for new bollards, for footpaths, for ramps - and for the grass to be cut regularly and properly.
Deep cleaning is now required, whereas in the past street cleaners were able to keep gutters and footpaths clean.
With many country footpaths and bridleways closed because of the epidemic, owners are finding it more difficult to exercise their pets.
A few feet beyond the sign a footpath leaves the road on the right and climbs uphill through the trees.
We gave chase along the footpath.

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