Wellesley

 

Wellesley is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, and is part of Greater the home of Wellesley College, Babson College, and a campus of Massachusetts Bay Community College. Wellesley consists of several neighborhoods: Wellesley Farms, Wellesley Fells, Wellesley Hills, Wellesley Lower Falls, Wellesley Square, Babson Park, Overbrook, and Sheridan Hills. Wellesley designated Cottage Street and its nearby alleys as the historic district in its zoning plan. Most houses in this district were built around the 1860s and qualify as protected buildings certified by the town's historic commission. The town is known for possessing the second-greatest concentration of residents with advanced degrees in the country. The public education services of the town are very well regarded, especially Wellesley High School ranked in the best public high school in the nation by U.S. News and World Report, and by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges Commission on Public Secondary Schools. The school system also contains a middle school and seven elementary schools (Bates, Upham, Schofield, Fiske, Hardy, Hunnewell, and Sprague.) Wellesley has had rail service to Boston since 1833. These days rail service is provided through Wellesley's participation in the MBTA, which offers a total of 17 weekday Commuter Rail trains inbound towards Boston and outbound towards Framingham and Worcester. The nearest international airport is Boston Logan Airport 18 miles from Wellesley.