Astrig Way

Astrig Way is a short dead-end street in South Billerica near the Bedford line, running about 730 feet northeast from Springs Road close to its junction with Concord Road. It began as an old private right of way. A "Plan of Land in Billerica, Mass." drawn on June 1, 1988 by Raymond Engineering Service of Billerica for the owner, the A. Arakelian Realty Trust, shows an unnamed "existing 33' right of way" running from "Spring Street" between the Arakelian land and a row of house lots, back to the land of Technology Park and Honeywell Bull, with an "easement for roadway turn around." The plan divided the Arakelian land beside it into two house lots of 50,938 and 59,525 square feet. The Planning Board endorsed it on June 6, 1988 as not requiring approval under the subdivision control law, and it was recorded the next day (Plan Book 165, Plan 20).

The houses on the two lots were built about 1988, by the assessors, and the name Astrig Way appears in the registry's street index from December 1988, when the first of them was sold. The plan does not name the way, and the origin of the name Astrig has not been found.

Astrig Way remained a private way for thirty-five years. On May 4, 2023 the annual spring town meeting accepted it as a public way under Article 33, "from Springs Road to dead end, approximate length 730' and variable width right of way," as shown on a plan and profile of Astrig Way dated August 11, 2021 by Lighthouse Land Surveying, LLC. It was one of fifteen streets accepted at that meeting, among them Birch Street and Dean Street nearby, and the Select Board took the easements for them by an order recorded on August 31, 2023.