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Raynham

Raynham ( ) is a town in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States, located approximately 32 miles (51 km) south of Boston and 22 miles (35 km) northeast of Providence, Rhode Island.

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The place

Raynham ( ) is a town in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States, located approximately 32 miles (51 km) south of Boston and 22 miles (35 km) northeast of Providence, Rhode Island. The population was 15,082 at the 2020 census. It has one village, Raynham Center.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Raynham

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Bridgewater Triangle

    The Bridgewater Triangle is an area of about 200 square miles within southeastern Massachusetts in the United States, claimed to be a site of alleged paranormal phenomena, ranging from UFOs to poltergeists, and other spectral phenomena, various bigfoot-like sightings, giant snakes and thunderbirds. The term was coined by New England-based cryptozoologist Loren Coleman.

    2.5 km · an area in southeastern Massachusetts claimed to be the site of paranormal phenomena · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Taunton Public Library

    Taunton Public Library is the public library of Taunton, Massachusetts. It is located at 12 Pleasant Street, in an architecturally distinguished Beaux Arts building built in 1903 with funding support from Andrew Carnegie, to which a modern addition was made in 1979.

    5.3 km · library in Taunton, Massachusetts, United States · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Watson Pond State Park

    Watson Pond State Park is a public recreation area occupying ten acres on the east side of Watson Pond in the northern portion of the city of Taunton, Massachusetts. The state park comprises a 300-foot swimming beach, picnic area, bathhouse and pavilion.

    3.4 km · state park in Massachusetts, United States · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    King Phillip's Cave

    King Philip's Cave is a cave in Norton, Massachusetts near Lake Winnecunnett. It may be accessed from Stone Run Drive off Plain Street near Bay Road and sits on a 7-acre parcel of land owned by the Land Preservation Society, an independent non-profit conservation organization chartered in 1970 by the State of Massachusetts.

    5.9 km · Cave in Massachusetts, United States · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Lake Nippenicket

    Lake Nippenicket, known locally as The Nip, is a freshwater pond in the town of Bridgewater, Massachusetts, and immediately adjacent to Raynham, Massachusetts. The lake borders a tiny portion of Route 104, and is near the junction of I-495 and Route 24.

    3.7 km · lake in Massachusetts, United States · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Neck of Land Cemetery

    The Neck of Land Cemetery is a small historic cemetery on Summer Street in Taunton, Massachusetts. Established in 1687 near the confluence of the Mill and Taunton Rivers, it was the city's first cemetery.

    5.7 km · historic cemetery in Massachusetts, United States · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    First Parish Church

    First Parish Church is a historic church located within the Church Green Historic District in Taunton, Massachusetts. It is the fourth meetinghouse since 1647 to be located on what was the original town common.

    5.4 km · church building in Taunton, Massachusetts, United States of America · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Leonard School

    The Leonard School is a historic school building at 356 West Britannia Street in Taunton, Massachusetts. It is a two-story brick structure, with a hip roof and a projecting front section that is topped by a truncated tower.

    4.5 km · historic school building in Taunton, Massachusetts, United States · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Old Colony History Museum

    The Old Colony History Museum is located at 66 Church Green in Taunton, Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States. Since 1926, the museum has occupied the historic former Bristol Academy school building.

    5.4 km · museum in Taunton, Massachusetts, US, operated by Old Colony Historical Society · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Our Lady of the Holy Rosary Parish

    Our Lady of the Holy Rosary Parish is a parish of the Roman Catholic church designated for Polish immigrants in Taunton, Massachusetts, United States. It was founded in 1927 in the Diocese of Fall River as one of the Polish-American Roman Catholic parishes in New England.

    4.1 km · church in Massachusetts, United States · Wikipedia

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Getting to Raynham

Airports
Rhode Island T. F. Green (PVD), 38 km · Boston Logan (BOS), 46 km · Bradley (BDL), 134 km
  • Boston → Raynham
    46 km · quickest by road, 1h 8m · $4.5–6
  • Hartford → Raynham
    135 km · quickest by road, 2h 43m · $14–19
  • Portland → Raynham
    4093 km · quickest by air, 10h 42m · $520–780
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Raynham

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Raynham. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Fire IslandUS

    10 ways of moving, 18 sources

    226 km
  2. 02
    Vinalhaven and the Fox IslandsUS

    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    296 km
  3. 03
    Tortola and the British Virgin IslandsVG

    11 ways of moving, 15 sources

    2,686 km
  4. 04
    ViequesPR

    8 ways of moving, 12 sources

    2,702 km
  5. 05
    SabaNL

    8 ways of moving, 22 sources

    2,804 km

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Next door to Raynham

Raynham is 43 km from South Boston, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.