Field Street

Field Street is a short street in South Billerica running east from Concord Road to the Bedford town line, in the Billerica Terrace neighborhood. Only about 310 feet of it lies in Billerica. It was laid out on "Billerica Terrace, Bedford and Billerica, Mass.," dated September 11, 1913 and drawn by P. E. Silverman, civil engineer, of Boston, and recorded on January 3, 1914 (Plan Book 31, Plan 37). On that plan Field Street and Green Street leave North Road, as Concord Road was then called, on its east side, cross the town line into Bedford through land of Dr. C. E. Hosmer, and continue among the Bedford lots of the tract. The origin of the name was not found.

Unlike Dean Street, Birch Street and Apple Road, which the directories list from 1919 and 1931, Field Street does not appear in the Billerica directories, and the oldest house on its Billerica part dates from about 1950. It remained a private way for more than a century. At the annual spring town meeting, on May 4, 2023, the town accepted "Field Street, from Concord Road to the Bedford Town Line, approximate length 310' and 40' width right of way," as shown on a plan and profile dated August 11, 2021 by Lighthouse Land Surveying, LLC, together with Dean Street, Birch Street and twelve other roads, by a vote of 148 to 3.

References

1. Town of Billerica FY2023 Annual Report: May 4, 2023 Art. 33, Field Street from Concord Road to the Bedford line accepted