Nichols Field

Nichols Field is a nature reserve in Essex, Massachusetts which is located on Labor in Vain Road. Nichols Field is situated nearby to the locality Old Crane Cranberry Bog, as well as near Bass Rock.

Opening hours: sunrise—sunset
Type: Nature reserve
Address: 60 Labor in Vain Road, Ipswich, MA 01938

Places of Interest

Highlights include Ipswich station and Sandy Point State Reservation.

Ipswich station

Railway station

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Ipswich station is an MBTA Commuter Rail station in Ipswich, Massachusetts. Located in downtown Ipswich, it serves the Newburyport/Rockport Line. The station is accessible, with a mini-high platform on the northern end of the platform.

Sandy Point State Reservation

Protected area

Photo: Botteville, Public domain.

Sandy Point State Reservation is a coastal Massachusetts state park located in the town of Ipswich at the southern tip of Plum Island. The reservation is managed by the Department of Conservation and Recreation and is an important nesting area for the piping plover and the least tern.

Ipswich High School

School

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Ipswich High School is a four-year public high school in Ipswich, Massachusetts, United States. It had an enrollment of approximately 500 students as of 2024.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ipswich and Hamilton.

Ipswich

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.5.

Ipswich is a seaside town of 14,000 people in Massachusetts. Home to Willowdale State Forest and Sandy Point State Reservation, Ipswich includes the southern part of Plum Island.

Hamilton

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Hamilton is a North Shore city in Massachusetts with a population of about 7,500 in 2020. Hamilton is closely tied to its sister town, Wenham, sharing a school system, library, recreation department and commuter rail station.

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.

Nichols Field

Category: recreation area
Location: Essex, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude

42.6827° or 42° 40′ 58″ north

Longitude

-70.8173° or 70° 49′ 2″ west

Operator

Town of Ipswich

Open location code

87JFM5MM+33

OpenStreetMap ID

way 29697059

OpenStreetMap feature

leisure=nature_reserve

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