lane

noun, a long, usually unpaved, driveway up to a house, or a small, private road into a group of houses and/or cottages; see also laneway

“This is a lane here, and it’s not maintained by the township. They don’t want to touch it. And we have lanes going into cottages, houses, many places.”

“You know where Tom and Sarah lived, down that long, long, long lane. Halfway down the lane was a farm on the right.”

“The kids did the newspaper the next day. Well, I mean they had nothing else to do, right? We could get to the lane, so we drove them to the Village, and everybody got their papers. So that was kind of fun. But oh, even the branches, it really looked like a war zone … So that was the big ice storm of ’98.”