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.”

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