0 a path that goes along the side of a river or canal, used in the past by horses pulling boats -- （旧时河流或运河边马拉船只时走的）纤路，纤道
We walked along the towpath. 我们沿着纤路走。
There are 1,600 miles of canal towpath and around 450 miles are used by cable companies for a variety of communication purposes.
People outside are worried that they may lose the right to go along towpaths.
They might simply put the pipeline in the water, to one side of the towpath.
These are the people who want the towpaths.
The towpath is a very attractive walk, and it should be preserved, but the cost of doing it is heavy.
We expect the duty to apply to all urban waterway towpaths and embankments to which the public are entitled or permitted to have access.
It has been suggested that the local authority would not always be able to maintain the towpath because of erosion of the bank.
Leisure and recreation facilities attract 160 million visits a year, either by boaters, anglers, cyclists, towpath walkers, naturalists, wildlife photographers or artists.
