Reading
Reading is a town of 26,000 people in Greater Boston. Reading played an active role in the American Revolutionary War. It was prominently involved in the engagements pursuing the retreating British Army after the battles of Lexington and Concord, and has a few sites associated with the Revolutionary Era.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Terageorge, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Terageorge, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Town with 23,100 residents
- Description: town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States
- Also known as: “Lynn Village”, “Reading, MA”, “Reading, Mass.”, and “Reading, Massachusetts”
- Postal code: 01867
Places of Interest
Highlights include Reading station and Old South United Methodist Church.
Reading station
Railway station
Photo: Pi.1415926535, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Reading station is an MBTA Commuter Rail station in Reading, Massachusetts. It serves the Haverhill/Reading Line. It is located at Lincoln and High Streets on the western fringe of Reading's central business district.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Wakefield.
Wakefield
Photo: Ethomsen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Wakefield, Massachusetts is a scenic town 12 miles north of Boston with a population of about 27,000. Wakefield has preserved much of its historic New England appearance and is recognized for its strong community involvement, quality school system, thriving businesses, public library, and for beautiful Lake Quannapowitt, which plays host to outdoor festivals and benefit activities each year.
Reading
- Categories: New England town and locality
- Location: Town of Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
42.526° or 42° 31′ 34″ northLongitude
-71.102° or 71° 6′ 7″ westPopulation
23,100Elevation
95 feet (29 metres)United Nations Location Code
US RDIOpen location code
87JCGVGX+C5OpenStreetMap ID
node 158867548OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Reading” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ريدينج”
- Basque: “Reading”
- Catalan: “Reading”
- Cebuano: “Reading”
- Chechen: “Рединг”
- Chinese: “雷丁”
- Danish: “Reading”
- Dutch: “Reading”
- French: “Reading”
- German: “Reading”
- Haitian: “Reading, Massachusetts”
- Haitian: “Reading”
- Irish: “Reading”
- Italian: “Reading”
- Japanese: “マサチューセッツ州レディング”
- Japanese: “レディング”
- Kazakh: “Rïdïng”
- Kazakh: “Ридинг”
- Kazakh: “رىيدىينگ”
- Kirghiz: “Ридинг”
- Mazanderani: “ریدینگ (ماساچوست)”
- Mazanderani: “ریدینگ”
- Persian: “ریدینگ، ماساچوست”
- Persian: “ریدینگ”
- Polish: “Reading”
- Portuguese: “Reading”
- Russian: “Рединг”
- Serbian: “Рединг”
- Serbian: “Ридинг”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Reading, Massachusetts”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Reading”
- South Azerbaijani: “ریدینق، ماساچوست”
- Spanish: “Reading (Massachusetts)”
- Spanish: “Reading”
- Swahili: “Reading, Massachusetts”
- Swahili: “Reading”
- Swedish: “Reading, Massachusetts”
- Swedish: “Reading”
- Tatar: “Рединг”
- Turkish: “Reading, Massachusetts”
- Turkish: “Reading”
- Ukrainian: “Редінг”
- Urdu: “ریڈنگ، میساچوسٹس”
- Urdu: “ریڈنگ”
- Volapük: “Reading”
- Welsh: “Reading, Massachusetts”
- Welsh: “Reading”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Reading”. Photo: Terageorge, CC BY-SA 3.0.