bridle road

Ms Forrest introduces her book as a “wander down six bridle roads”, each relating to a different way in which people have made use of horses.

For three hours we ascended the mountain by scarcely marked bridle roads, astonished at the confidence with which our horses walked up those steep slopes where there seemed hardly any hold for their feet.

We cross the railway near a station, which, as a cottager told me is “Mr. Pease’s station; built for hisself, and not for everybody;” and take a bridle road leading to the hill.

A bridle road invites, but the thoroughfare being intercepted by brushwood and overhanging branches, it is not easy to effect a passage.

In Leicestershire there are so many bridle roads that a lady may obtain any amount of this practice when hacking.