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plural towpaths
A path alongside a canal or river, originally for horses towing barges, now more often used as a footpath. quotations examples
From the 1960s, various local authorities became increasingly involved in improving the neglected waterway, and towpaths were progressively reopened as footpaths.
2021 December 1, Nigel Harris, “St Pancras and King's Cross: 1947”, in RAIL, number 945, page 44