Meaning of manorway | Babel Free

Definitions

A roadway, typically a dead end, giving access from a manor or village to marshy common land, often near a river.

Examples

“Its course, still widening, lies across the road which leads from the village to the church, where there must have⟳ been of old a ford or a bridge (for the level of the present⟳ road has been heightened), and thence along a ravine now partly filled up by a manorway leaving a deep ditch on each side.”

“Perry's labours were at the extremity of a long manor-way. This chace or lane ran a mile and a-half down lonesome marshes, pleasant enough in the summer months, but dull and dismal in the winter.”

“My council have⟳ adopted the Private Street Works Act, 1892, and are about to make⟳ up as a private street a portion of an old manorway, which has never been dedicated to the public.”

CEFR level