Town in Massachusetts, United States

Dedham

Dedham is a town in, and the county seat of, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States.

Plan a trip to Dedham→From Providence/Warwick

Every way there

Providence/Warwick → Dedham
62 km · quickest by road, 1h 29m · $6–8
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Portland → Dedham
4072 km · quickest by air, 9h 25m · $470–720
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Hartford → Dedham
136 km · quickest by road, 2h 32m · $13–18
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

The field note

What is in and around Dedham, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What Dedham has

YScheduled flightsBoston (BOS), 19 km
YTrains and coachesTransitous carries 5 timetable feeds for this country, 2 with real-time
YFerriesQuincy/Squantum Point Park, 13 km, MBTA; sailings estimated
YDriving and taxiOpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
NBike and scooter shareno share feed known
NCruisesno open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known.

42.242°, -71.167°

Located on Boston's southwestern border, the population was 25,364 at the 2020 census.

How locals move

Getting around Dedham the local way

Get inThere are a few ferries plying their trades between Boston and Provincetown, and another company connects Plymouth to P-town.

From Wikivoyage: Eastern Massachusetts, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-07.

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