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Definition of Footpaths
1. footpath [n] - See also: footpath
Lexicographical Neighbors of Footpaths
Literary usage of Footpaths
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Local Government from the Revolution to the Municipal Corporations by Sidney Webb, Beatrice Potter Webb (1906)
"2 (g) The Stopping up of footpaths The other department of their judicial work
in "which the Kules of the County departed, ..."
2. The Journal of the Manchester Geographical Society by Manchester Geographical Society (1897)
"By the kind permission of Mr. Abel Heywood and the footpaths Association we are
enabled to present in this journal the map and a selection of views prepared ..."
3. A Practical Treatise on Roads, Streets, and Pavements by Quincy Adams Gillmore (1892)
"SIDEWALKS and other footpaths are usually paved with flagging-stone, ...
Concrete footpaths should be laid upon a form of well compacted sand or fine gravel ..."
4. A Treatise on the Law of Ways, Including Highways, Turnpike Roads and Tolls by Humphry William Woolrych (1829)
"Other nuisances punishable, (being interruptions) are by riding on footpaths, or
causeways by the side of the road set apart for foot-passengers; ..."
5. Gentleman's Magazine Library edited by George Laurence Gomme, Frank Alexander Milne, Lady A C Bickley, Mrs Alice Bertha Merck Gomme (1904)
"footpaths. [1837, Part 7., p. 648.] April 12. For some time past considerable
excitement has prevailed throughout the parishes of Kensington, Chelsea, ..."
6. The Health of Nations: A Review of the Works of Edwin Chadwick by Sir Benjamin Ward Richardson, Edwin Chadwick (1887)
"STREETS AND footpaths. " In respect to the surfaces of the footpaths and streets
of towns, it ought to be provided that : — the ..."
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