woodway

plural woodways

1. A road or path through the forest.

   Tiphaine was silent when he had ended, watching the winding woodways of the forest.

   1908, Warwick Deeping, Bertrand of Brittany, page 240

   2 more examples

   So they went through the summer night-tide by many a woodway dim, Till they came to a certain wood-lawn, and Sigmund lingered there,

   1877, William Morris, The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs

   The line had not moved a bowshot when De Aquila's great horn blew for a halt, and soon young Fulke—our false Fulke's son—yes, the imp that lit the straw in Pevensey Castle—came thundering up a woodway.

   1906, Rudyard Kipling, Puck of Pook's Hill

2. A path for pedestrians paved in wood; boardwalk.

   I surmise that pond originally meant a deep water. So pontus (the old Roman for bridge) may be a shortcut expression for a woodway over a pond.

   2005, Reinhold Aman, Maledicta - Volume 1, Issue 2, page 192