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My rosemary bush has fallen over, not horizontal but at an angle - still doing fine but it is blocking the path so (not unreasonably) I have been asked to move it, any advice?

Would propping it up with stakes work, like the thinner diameter concrete reinforcing poles?  I had one fallen over and propped it up and pruned.  Maybe take some cuttings too from the prunings, which gives you the option to remove it altogether next year, when the cuttings have settled in a better place. 

I fear it would still be in the way.

If the plant is touching the ground, check whether any roots are forming on the growth there. Cut off that sprig and pot it up.

Prune the bush to remove as much as leaves the bush with an amount of leaves (short back and sides, as it were). That will give you plenty to use as cuttings, plus flavour everything with rosemary for some weeks (lamb, bread, gin, etc). You can freeze rosemary, so there will be no respite for your family.

Aim to get the plant up with as big a root ball as you can, say 12" - 18" across, by digging round it at that distance and getting a spade or fork under it. You may find that much of the soil drops off in practice, but the point is to get out as much of the root system as possible. Replant in its new home or a pot while you decide whether it will keep going. You probably know all that already!

Another approach would be to cut the bush back really hard so that it is not in the way of the path and hope that it sends up new growth which you can control. Take cuttings as before and when some of those are established in the garden, remove the old plant (whether living or dead).