0 a path that goes along the side of a river or canal, used in the past by horses pulling boats:
We walked along the towpath.
Leisure and recreation facilities attract 160 million visits a year, either by boaters, anglers, cyclists, towpath walkers, naturalists, wildlife photographers or artists.
Water channels would continue to provide such amenities as angling, and towpath rambling and could be used by light unpowered craft such as canoes.
With the disappearance of horse-drawn barge traffic, the towpath has fallen into disuse.
Many of these show the towpath as a right of way, but there are variations between counties on this point.
They provide opportunities for boating, fishing, canoeing, simply sitting about or walking along the towpaths of the waterways.
We expect the duty to apply to all urban waterway towpaths and embankments to which the public are entitled or permitted to have access.
There are 1,600 miles of canal towpath and around 450 miles are used by cable companies for a variety of communication purposes.
They might simply put the pipeline in the water, to one side of the towpath.
