How To Use Towpath In A Sentence
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The prospect of an intense evening of ‘towpath humping’ at a rainy, windswept canal near Paisley doesn't faze the actress in the least.
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They were chased for more than half a mile by this angry bird, who reared up to his full height in the water, beat his wings and mounted the towpath in order to drive them off.
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What does a gent do when he is walking along a towpath, with a river on one side and a road on the other?
Times, Sunday Times
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If you are getting restless, you can leave the city walls behind for green and rural Cheshire - as in cheese, grinning cats, Iron Age hill forts, Norman castles, cycle trails, sandstone ridges and canal towpaths.
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Tonight, as last night, it's just a towpath used by people walking their dogs and a black river lapping the bank.
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I finally went for a walk along the canal towpath, which is indeed very beautiful, and only a few minutes outside Princeton!
And after that...
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At points the towpath is bordered with mature trees and thickets of elder and hawthorn, home to many different species of birds.
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When I walk along the canal towpath and see people fishing that reminds me of James because he loves fishing.
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Tourists step on to the river bank beside a ramshackle green hut and walk along a towpath under a busy road bridge.
Times, Sunday Times
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Much of the route follows the towpath of the Caledonian Canal.
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Many canals, inland waterways and towpaths were open for walkers and other visitors while many English Heritage and National Trust sites were open across the region.
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The incident happened when the horse was being led along the towpath on Sunday by her owner when she shied at a cycle barrier and bolted backwards.
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Much of the route runs along the towpath adjacent to the Caledonian Canal.
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Detectives are hunting an anorak-wearing flasher who exposed himself to a woman as she walked along a Burnley canal towpath.
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It was the only aqueduct on the Erie Canal to carry both a water trough and a towpath over a river.
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Tourists step on to the river bank beside a ramshackle green hut and walk along a towpath under a busy road bridge.
Times, Sunday Times
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I then read the councillors are ‘monitoring’ the use of scramble bikes and quads in public recreation grounds and canal towpaths.
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Police are still trying to trace a potential witness seen by a jogger on the canal towpath behind Mr Miles home.
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He was invited to a party the guiding idea of which was to charter a canalboat in Newcastle, Pennsylvania, and glide through Bucks County watching the south end of the mule head north along the towpath (or was it the north end heading south?), lallygagging around under the awning away from the gassy streets of the metropolitan summer.
The Fourth Side of the Triangle
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At the moment, cyclists need a free permit to use the towpaths.
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It was the only aqueduct on the Erie Canal to carry both a water trough and a towpath over a river.
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Well-tended houseboats line the towpath, berthed at permanent moorings complete with mini-gardens and bankside electricity supply.
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Most mourners had walked along the canal towpath between St James and Devizes Cemetery for the interment.
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The towpath was lit only by the brightness of the full moon but she knew his jaunty walk anywhere and anyway there was nobody else around at that time of the night.
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Sometimes we walk along the towpath or, if the lock is a bit far, we clamber back on board.
Times, Sunday Times
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Much of the route follows the towpath of the Caledonian Canal.
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In East Marton, near Gargrave, a woman walking a canal towpath bumped into a nude hiker who said ‘good afternoon’ and walked on.
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Projects have included improving canal side towpaths, boat maintenance and helping crew trips.
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We'd throw a rope round a tree and the children would dash off along the towpath for a recce while the adults threw together a little light salad and uncorked a local rose.
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Commuting any distance daily to work in the boat wasn't on; bicycle along the towpath was the transport of choice.
The Guardian World News
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Turn right on the far side of the bridge and retrace your steps along a section of the canal towpath walked earlier.
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Soon we'll be visiting the Cathedral in Reims, touring the cellars of world-class Champagne houses, strolling the towpath and walking the Chemin des Dames, the women's way.
Anne Z. Cooke: Love and Luxe On a Barge In Champagne
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Do not cross the bridge but turn sharp left to go down on to the towpath.
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The canals and towpaths are owned by the nation, not British Waterways.
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Yesterday senior officers studied the towpath were she was last seen, amid mounting criticism of their investigation.
The Sun
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He did ask if I thought people should not be allowed to walk on canal towpaths in case they fell in and drowned.
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The final stretch follows the towpath.
Times, Sunday Times
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Barmy British eccentricity rules the waves once again this Saturday as 16 straining, muscled hearties heave, two tiny coxswains fret and shout and, tradition assures us, Cockney urchins bedecked in blue scuffle alongside on the towpath scragging each other and hollering "C'mon Horx-ferd!" or "C'mon Cym-breege!
Boat Race still takes British sport's venerable cream cracker | Frank Keating
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Sometimes we walk along the towpath or, if the lock is a bit far, we clamber back on board.
Times, Sunday Times
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Every second and last Sunday of each month, volunteers have been tirelessly clearing vegetation and rubbish from former towpaths and canal beds and rebuilding bridges and locks.
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Two girls on bikes with baskets pedalled along the towpath.
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When ‘I was a lad’ in the 1920s and 1930s, three activities were illegal on the canal towpaths - throwing stones, cycling and swimming.
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These include relocating the canal towpath to a bridge walkway creating a direct route for pedestrians crossing the basin.
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Sometimes we walk along the towpath or, if the lock is a bit far, we clamber back on board.
Times, Sunday Times
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Cyclists may feel a little more inclined to use the towpath if pedestrians did not walk four abreast and refuse to give way until the last minute and dog walkers kept their dogs on a short lead and cleaned up after their dogs.
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A long walk along ancient downland tracks and towpaths.
Times, Sunday Times
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I was annoyed to see whilst riding along the towpath on the way back into town that the swans have lost one of the cygnets in the past couple of days.
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Houseboats and expensive terraced villas line the waterway, while well-heeled ladies take yappy canine triplets for walkies along the towpath.
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At points the towpath is bordered by mature trees and thickets of elder and hawthorn, home to many different species of birds.
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The northern section, still largely in good condition, offers a most enjoyable towpath walk.
Exploring Britain's Canals
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With a sudden bark the Labrador pulled free of Robbie's too-gentle grip and in one bound made the towpath.
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We'd throw a rope round a tree and the children would dash off along the towpath for a recce while the adults threw together a little light salad and uncorked a local rosé.
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The towpath was upgraded for use by cyclists.
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For another water side walk, we will go to St. Mullins and walk part of the towpath of the River Barrow.
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He arranged to meet up on a canal towpath to collect the bicycle.
Times, Sunday Times
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And if you are looking for an easy (but beautiful!) hike, try hiking the Potomac Heritage Trail from the Key Bridge to the Chain Bridge and then cross the Chain Bridge and return via the C&O Canal towpath.
Going Out Guide: Leaf-peeping, pizza places, cafes and dinner near the Avalon
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Overview: “Stretching 136 miles from Cumberland, Md., to Duquesne, Pa., the trail links to the C&O Canal towpath that starts in Washington, D.C., creating a blissfully traffic-free cyclists 'haven.”
FH Boom Daily Digest - October 9, 2009 (The Boomer Blog)
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Then nothing but the towpath, which is the path on one side of the canal where the mules walk when they drag the canal boats.
W. A. G.'s Tale
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Crime on the towpaths includes everything from minor thefts to serious assaults and even murder, but the amount of crime reported is relatively low.
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The side opposite the towpath is being faced with bricks.
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A strong moon cast its blue and gamboge light across the boarded-up fronts of the houses by the towpath.
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To me, the towpath is a highway for potential customers," Kay said.
The Frederick News-Post : Local News
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I love walking along canal towpaths and the route taken by the Leeds and Liverpool through Blackburn is a history lesson.
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After all, the track follows in the hoofprints of horses, which for hundreds of years pulled barges upstream along these same, now asphalted, riverside towpaths.
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The land consists of 9 acres of undeveloped land in North Oxford, between the railway to the west and the towpath of the Oxford Canal to the east.
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Afterwards, we staggered back up the towpath clutching our tummies.
Times, Sunday Times
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The bridge will be of single span over the canal and towpaths and will be provided with ramp access from the north and both stair and ramp access from the south.
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British Waterways, which has its headquarters in Watford, near London, insists it does not want to bar walkers or canoeists from using its canals and towpaths.
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Horses pulled barges from the towpath before boat engines were used.
