Dykes Pond

Dykes Pond is a reservoir in Essex, Massachusetts. Dykes Pond is situated nearby to the hamlet West Gloucester, as well as near Kettle Cove Village.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Beechbrook Cemetery and Hammond Castle.

Hammond Castle is located on the Atlantic coast in the Magnolia area of Gloucester, Massachusetts. The castle, which was constructed between 1926 and 1929, was the home, laboratory, and museum of John Hays Hammond Jr., an inventor and pioneer in the study of remote control who held over four hundred patents. Hammond Castle is situated 2½ miles southeast of Dykes Pond.

Coolidge Reservation

Nature reserve

Photo: Daderot, Public domain.

Coolidge Reservation is a nature reserve located in Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts. The property is owned by The Trustees of Reservations. Coolidge Reservation is situated 2 miles south of Dykes Pond.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Magnolia and Manchester.

Magnolia

Hamlet

Photo: Pi.1415926535, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Magnolia is a small village in Gloucester, located in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States, on the Manchester-by-the-Sea town line in the southwestern part of the city. Magnolia is situated 2½ miles south of Dykes Pond.

Manchester

Photo: MVASCO, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Manchester is a town in Massachusetts with a population of about 5,000. It is also known as Manchester-by-the-Sea.

Essex

Photo: GMushinsky, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Essex is a town in on Cape Ann in the North Shore region of Massachusetts. Settled by direct descendants of the Mayflower passengers in the early 1600s, it was later world-renowned as North America's fishing schooner construction center.

Dykes Pond

Type: Reservoir
Also known as: “Dikes Brook Reservoir”, “Dikes Meadow Pond”, “Dikes Meadow Reservor”, “Dikes Pond”, and “Dykes Reservoir”
Category: body of water
Location: Essex, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude

42.60591° or 42° 36′ 21″ north

Longitude

-70.7275° or 70° 43′ 39″ west

Elevation

112 feet (34 metres)

Open location code

87JFJ74C+9X

GeoNames ID

4935241

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