towpath
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towpaths
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Around 1,500 pro-Palestine marchers walked along a canal towpath from Lurgan to Newry on Saturday morning.
From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2026
He was later captured by police while riding a bicycle on a canal towpath in west London.
From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2024
A former British soldier accused of escaping prison "congratulated" a police officer on catching him after he was stopped on a west London canal towpath, a court has heard.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2024
Police said he was arrested by a plain-clothes counter-terrorism officer four days after his alleged escape while riding a bike along a canal towpath in Northolt, west London.
From BBC ● Jan. 18, 2024
Asta saw his dæmon—a cat—moving among the lowest branches of the oak tree while he stood below and looked up and down the towpath.
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
Volunteers for the charity spend more than 100,000 hours clearing litter from towpaths and canals each year.
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2019
His bike of seven years was a Specialized Rockhopper, a mid-level mountain bike with front shocks, ideal for traversing wooded trails, canal towpaths and sturdy enough for the ride he took across Iowa.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 19, 2019
People do it behind motorboats and Jet Skis and, if necessary, cars, trucks, tractors, and horses running on irrigation-ditch towpaths.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 10, 2018
His pictures offer a somewhat romanticised view, concentrating on the buildings, canals and towpaths, with many taken during early-morning walks when the light was soft and perfect for photography.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2014
It commanded also the water-way by the Tiber, and the towpaths on each of its banks.
From Pagan and Christian Rome by Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani
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