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The Snickelways of York, often misspelt Snickleways, are a collection of small streets and footpaths in the city of York, England. The word ''Snickelway'' was coined by local author Mark W. Jones in 1983 in his book ''A Walk Around the Snickelways of York'', and is a portmanteau of the words ''snicket'', meaning a passageway between walls or fences, ''ginnel'', a narrow passageway between or through buildings, and ''alleyway'', a narrow street or lane.〔 Although the word is a neologism, it quickly became part of the local vocabulary, and has even been used in official council documents, for example when giving notice of temporary footpath closures. ==Definition== The snickelways themselves are usually small paths or lanes between buildings, not wide enough for a vehicle to pass down, and usually public rights of way. Jones provides the following definition for them: York has many such paths, mostly mediaeval, though there are some modern paths as well. They have names like any other city street, often quirky names such as ''Mad Alice Lane'', ''Hornpot Lane Nether'' and even ''Finkle Street'' (formerly ''Mucky Peg Lane'').
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