Sentence examples for stone roadway from inspiring English sources

Periander facilitated the transit of ships and cargoes, which were hauled overland from gulf to gulf, by building a stone roadway between them, thus sparing seafarers the arduous voyage around the southern tip of the Peloponnese.

It was used in the 1800's by the North Salem Circus, one of the earliest in the country, and still has a relic from that time, the Elephant Walk, a wide stone roadway built in the 1840's for walking elephants between performance and pasture.

Constructed of layers of stone, the roadway took account of the necessity of drainage by a crown throughout its length and even gutters along certain sections.

It had snowed a few days before, and crews had laid down salt, which eats away at the asphalt cement -- the tar that holds the roadway stones together.

There are still flower-covered cottages in timber and warm stone, but a high-speed roadway lies a few hundred yards to the south, and the place is joined to the unmemorable town of Maidenhead by a haphazard urban sprawl.

During 1934, additional work was done to the roadway to build the stone walls.

"Landscaping of lots along a designated road shall avoid clear-cutting and preserve existing stone walls and natural vegetation along the roadway within the 100 foot setback, which shall be a buffer," the proposal says.

There were women working to build smaller "bolders" as the embankments are called, and men carrying heavy stones on their heads to help construct a roadway into more flooded parts, all work schemes for local people.

The drive is lined with low stone walls, built as part of the original construction of the roadway.

The roadway took 770000 ST of sand, 1200000 ST of stone, 50000 ST of steel and more than 300000 ST of cement to complete.

The roadway was to be covered 20 feet in width with stone 18 inches deep at the centre and 12 inches deep at the edge.