Essex Bay

Essex Bay is a bay in Essex, Massachusetts. Essex Bay is situated nearby to the hamlet South Essex, as well as near Annisquam.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Corn Island and Crane Beach.

Corn Island

Island

Corn Island is a forested island of Essex County, Massachusetts.

Crane Beach is a 1,234-acre conservation and recreation property located in Ipswich, Massachusetts, immediately north of Cape Ann. It consists of a four-mile-long sandy beachfront, dunes, and a maritime pitch pine forest.

Stavros Reservation

Nature reserve

Photo: Magicpiano, CC BY-SA 4.0.

The James N. and Mary F. Stavros Reservation is a 74-acre nature reserve located in Essex, Massachusetts. The property has been owned by The Trustees of Reservations since 1986.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Annisquam and Essex.

Annisquam

Hamlet

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

Annisquam is a waterfront village in the city of Gloucester in Essex County on the North Shore of Massachusetts, United States. It is a few miles across Cape Ann from downtown Gloucester.

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.

Dogtown Commons

Hamlet

Photo: Daderot, Public domain.

Dogtown is an abandoned inland village in Gloucester on Cape Ann in Massachusetts.

Essex Bay

Type: Bay
Address: MA
Category: body of water
Location: Essex, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude

42.65565° or 42° 39′ 20″ north

Longitude

-70.73144° or 70° 43′ 53″ west

Open location code

87JFM749+7C

OpenStreetMap ID

node 368984561

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=bay

GeoNames ID

4935948

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