Dread Ledge

Dread Ledge is an island in Essex, Massachusetts. Dread Ledge is situated nearby to the hamlet Phillips Point, as well as near the town Swampscott.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Swampscott Town Hall and Nahant Rock.

Swampscott Town Hall

Town hall

Photo: Daderot, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Swampscott Town Hall, previously the Elihu Thomson House, is a historic building in Swampscott, Massachusetts. The house was designed by architect James T.

Egg Rock in Nahant Bay near Nahant, Massachusetts is a small island at. It was formerly the site of a lighthouse known as Egg Rock Light but now is owned by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as a bird sanctuary.

Swampscott station

Railway station

Photo: Fletcher6, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Swampscott station is a historic railroad station in Swampscott, Massachusetts. Located in the southwest portion of Swampscott near the Lynn border, it serves the MBTA Commuter Rail Newburyport/Rockport Line.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Swampscott and Clifton.

Swampscott

Town

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Swampscott is a town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States, located 15 miles up the coast from Boston in an area known as the North Shore. The population was 15,111 as of the 2020 United States census.

Clifton

Hamlet

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Clifton was a street car stop within the towns of Swampscott and Marblehead in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. It includes Clifton Avenue. The area was named by Benjamin Ware, a hotelier who developed Clifton with the intention of creating a resort area.

Nahant

Photo: Pi.1415926535, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Nahant is a small town in the US state of Massachusetts with a population of about 3,000. It used to be a resort town, but changes in vacation preference and modes of travel left the town behind.

Dread Ledge

Type: Island
Description: island in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States of America
Categories: locality and landform
Location: Essex, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude

42.45704° or 42° 27′ 25″ north

Longitude

-70.89394° or 70° 53′ 38″ west

Open location code

87JFF444+RC

OpenStreetMap ID

node 358273307

OpenStreetMap feature

place=island

GeoNames ID

4935052

Wikidata ID

Q49636955

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In Other Languages

“Dread Ledge” goes by many names.

Cebuano: “Dread Ledge”

Localities in the Area

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