noun
definition
A path for pedestrians.
Examples of footpaths in a Sentence
The surface is fertile, the rivers are small and not navigable, and the roads are mere footpaths.
Soon after the first appearance (1580) of the Cossacks of Yermak in Siberia thousands of hunters, attracted by the furs, immigrated from north Russia, explored the country, traced the first footpaths and erected the first houses in the wilderness.
A later bridge, the Manhattan, is designed to carry four railway tracks and four tramway lines, with a wide roadway and footpaths, supported by cables 214 in.
The river is here crossed by three bridges; the (upper) steel arch bridge, built (1895) on the site of the former suspension bridge (built in 1869; blown down in 1889; rebuilt as a suspension bridge) near the Falls, is crossed by double carriageways and footpaths and by an electric railway, and is probably the longest bridge of the kind in the world, being 1240 ft.
The east side of the river (known as St Thomas's and Port Tennant) is approached from the west by a road carried over the North Dock Lock and the river by two girder drawbridges, each of which has a double line of roadway (on which tramways are laid), two footpaths and a line of railway.
Apart from country lanes and footpaths, there are three classes of highways, controlled, respectively, by the nation, department and commune.
Where other means are not available, goods are carried by canoes, or on the shoulders of bearers along the native footpaths.
Footpaths should be designed with personal safety in mind and should be located so as to minimize any conflict with motor vehicles.
The crowds that lined the Dublin footpaths to watch the cortege were honoring the Revolutionary soldier.
Putting money where your feet are 3 February 2005 Ramblers donate £ 4,500 to repair two badly eroded footpaths.
I harvest walnuts (Juglans regia) from within the woods and from trees overhanging local footpaths.
All of our walks are based on public or permissive footpaths.
Distance will be measured from the main entrance of the school according to the shortest walking route using public highways and lighted footpaths.
Please keep to marked public footpaths at all times.
Our attention is now turning back to other road safety issues such as roadside footpaths, which we first raised with Highways in 2004.
There are over 185 miles of footpaths in the Broads, ranging from short strolls to more strenuous hikes.
There are far too many footpaths deliberately blocked with barbed wire or made impassable by water troughs.
Walkways - which are not made-up footpaths - increase the chance of trips, slips or falls.
There is also an extensive network of footpaths around St Agnes, making this a walkers ' paradise.
Those of us who work in upland path repair can often succumb to a rather unhealthy obsession with the state of footpaths.
Footpaths take a greater proportion of our annual budget than they should, but their priority is greatly overstated.
It's a popular destination for country ramblers, with footpaths running through the hills and valleys around.
Wherever possible new footpaths should be separated from roads by verges and low shrubbery.
Exmouth has a mainly flat access from the town to the beach and nearly all the footpaths have gently slopped kerbs.
It 's a popular destination for country ramblers, with footpaths running through the hills and valleys around.
Statutory rights of way are either footpaths or bridleways.
Footpaths The council is seeking clarification of how the Test Way will be affected by a proposal to divert the footpath at Gavelacre.
Pond management and clearance of undergrowth in woodland in the grounds of a Jacobean Mansion with footpaths enabling full access to the public.
They are as a rule well kept up in north and central Italy, less so in the south, where, especially in Calabria, many villages are inaccessible by road and have only footpaths leading to them.