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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
well there you are then.  we've got the tow paths here as well because the canal is used for a lot of freight carried on barges and in the past, before motor barges, it would be towed by horses sometimes. . |
Interesting canal-related bit of etymology:
If a tunnel didn't have a towpath running alongside it
"...the boatmen had to find another way of getting their boat through the tunnel. ... the boatmen had to lie on the roof of the barge and use their legs to "walk" the boat through the narrow tunnel. ... it was this procedure which coined the phrase "legging it". "
http://www.yorkshire-escapes.com/yor...-narrow-canal/