cart road

A form of cartroad — A road for the driving of carts.

Meanings

nouncart road (plural cart roads)

plural cart roads

  1. alternativeAlternative form of cartroad.

    The project, known as the Bulkrane scheme, needs no station facilities other than a cart road giving access to road vehicles.

    1961 November, “Talking of Trains: The "Bulkrane" project of British Railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 656
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    The banks of the old railway are now so thickly overgrown with trees as to be almost indistinguishable from the surrounding countryside, and the most obvious landmarks are the walls of a bridge over a lane, and stone bridge, still intact, where a cart road crosses the cutting, close to the site of the former Clifton South Junction.

    1950 May, M. D. Greville and G. O. Holt, “A Forgotten Junction in Westmorland”, in Railway Magazine, page 330
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