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Wayland doesn't really have any developed neighborhoods which results in a lack of names. You won't find names like "Pond View Estates" in Wayland. It's an old suburb which hasn't seen significant development in decades. A lot of people identify their neighborhood by a particular street in the neighborhood. Often that's the street you enter on. There are a couple of decent size condo developments off of Rice Rd that have names like "Mainstone Farms" and "The Fields at Mainstone."
A lot of people identify their neighborhood by a particular street in the neighborhood.
There is definitely precedent for this, like the Bow Road Historic District.
In Concord, neighborhoods were usually named for individuals involved in their early development - Damondale, Warnersville, Conantum - or geographic/manmade features - Nashawtuc, Concord Junction - but rarely for streets.
Cochituate for sure - that is the village centered along Main Street between East/West Plain Streets and Commonwealth Road. It spreads around Lake Cochituate and Dudley Pond as well. Sometimes people refer to the Daymon Farms area by name; that is a small neighborhood off of Commonwealth Road and Oak Street, near Natick and Weston. There's also a bit of the Weston Estates that pokes into Wayland. Other than that, you have Wayland Center and North Wayland, but these, as others have mentioned, do not have clear boundaries. Some people refer to North Wayland as anything north of the town center; to others, you'd have to be closer to the Lincoln line.
I also have heard a few old-school Cochituate folks refer to the Riverview Ave/Circle area near the Framingham and Sudbury lines as "Cardboard City" because of the flimsy nature of some of the older homes around there. I haven't been around there in a while, but I think the neighborhood has probably upgraded itself in recent years as housing prices have skyrocketed and people built bigger homes to replace old ones.
Cochituate:
The most densely populated place in wayland and a little less than half of waylands population lives there. Cochituate's houses have less land and most are smaller than the rest of wayland. It is in the south and has most of the stores in wayland like Mel's commonwealth cafe, The villa, Rite aid, Starbucks, Dominos, J.j. mckays, etc. It also has all of wayland's schools except Claypit Hill School. (Cochituate also has 3 churches, 1 office building, 2 nursing homes a temple and 6k people)
Central wayland:
Sort of a mix of North wayland and cochituate. The houses are of north wayland quality but with less land. Central wayland has The Wayland Town Center, CVS, Russels, and an office building for stores and businesses. It has Claypit Hill School and a church and a temple.
North wayland:
No stores and large houses with lots of land that are expensive.
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