On the right hand bank, there was first the well used tow path.
John had come to the tow path as the stragglers of the crowd were passing.
Part of the old canal and the tow path used by mules at the time is still visible along the river.
The river bank was the site of a tow path, and became a road, lined with grain elevators from 1879.
Horse drawn tow paths alongside the river were also employed.
For cost reasons many ordinary Stratford bridges were also built in this way as they had no tow path.
Mary will guide the group on the walk down through the medieval village to the riverbank below, along the old tow path.
Spillways are evident as a dip in the tow path along the canal.
In return, he had to maintain the tow paths by which the barges were drawn upstream.
The district also includes the canal prism and adjacent tow path at Lock 107.