From Conan Doyle's "Beyond the City" :
"It was bounded by
a low wooden fence, which screened it off from a broad,
modern, new metaled road. "
A UK usage new to me.
road metal
broken stones, cinders, etc. used in making roads, ballasting roadbeds, etc.

Yes, I remember being told to park my bike on the pavement(sidewalk) not the metaled road.

We had some stuff on metalled roads in a thread under the heading 'The ever-winding theme' some months back if you want to run a search for it.

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it was buried deep in Miscellany:

http://wordsmith.org/board/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=miscellany&Number=104893

ah, thanks for bringing that back up ~ I had been wondering how to make a toad :)