Haggetts Pond

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Haggetts Pond
Haggetts Pond - Boat ramp along Route 133 providing public access to Haggetts Pond.
Boat ramp along Route 133 providing public access to Haggetts Pond.
Location Andover, Massachusetts
Coordinates 42°38′36″N, 71°12′18″WCoordinates: 42°38′36″N, 71°12′18″W
Lake type reservoir
Basin countries United States

Haggetts Pond is the reservoir for the town of Andover, Massachusetts, United States. It is located in the western part of the town and also lends its name to a road. The Merrimack River is connected to the pond to add volume to the reservoir.

It is bordered by Route 133 on the south. Not far to the northwest is Interstate 495; to the northeast is Interstate 93. Haggetts Pond is located at 42°38′36″N, 71°12′18″W.

Boating, swimming and fishing are not allowed at Haggetts Pond (with a few exceptions), but prior to 1900 they were actually encouraged. Hiking trails, some converted out of a former railway (the Lowell and Lawrence Railroad), encircle the pond.

The Pond also gives its name to a road (Haggetts Pond Road) that starts to the west of the pond itself. Haggetts Pond Road transverses Route 133, but the vast majority of its length is on the side north of the pond. (Of the 245 houses on Haggetts Pond Road, 240 of them are on the north side.)

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