Conservation Lands

Great Meadow

The Great Meadow contains 50 acres and is located near the center of town between Boston Post Rd. across from Wilkins School and Jacobsen's Farm on Christian Hill Road. There is access over land purchased from the Manchester Catholic Diocese to a short boardwalk into the wetland. The Meadow is now and has long been covered with alder and other brush, but up to the middle of the 20th century, it was regularly hayed by town residents. Beacuse the ground is so wet, haying needed to be done with horses. Heavy tractors could not be used on the soft ground. With Beaver Brook and Caesar's Brook flowing through it, it is a natural reservoir for the village water supply.