Hilary Road
Hilary Road, sometimes written Hillary Road in town reports, is a short residential street of about 650 feet in South Billerica, running north from Edgar Road to Pinetree Road. It was laid out on a "Subdivision Plan of Land in Billerica" drawn by George H. Poor, surveyor, in November 1967, which re-divided earlier lots of the Ranlett land, registered in the Land Court as case 2792, into lots 326 to 405 on Edgar, Solar, Mirror, Kirk, Hilary and Pine Tree Roads. The town's records call it "Ranlett Grove, a definitive sub-division plan of land in Billerica," after the old riverside colony of Ranlett Grove to the west. The Planning Board approved it in January 1968, a copy was filed in the Land Registration Office on May 5, 1969, and it was registered on June 5, 1970 as Land Court Plan 2792-T (Registration Book 89, Page 29). The plan does not explain the name, and its origin has not been found. Its four houses were built in 1970 and 1971 according to the assessors.
At the ninth session of the annual town meeting, on May 13, 1976, the town accepted the laying out of Hilary Road "from Edgar Road to PINETREE ROAD ... a way 50 feet wide and 654 feet long," together with Pinetree Road, Lupine Lane and other streets of the neighborhood. The Street Acceptance Committee had asked for $100 for repairs, but that amendment was voted down. The town overlaid the street in 1997 under its pavement management program.