Solar Road

Location	Map
Neighborhood	Ranlett Farm
Laid Out	1971
Right of Way	50 ft
Pavement	30 ft

Solar Road is a street of about 1,100 feet in South Billerica, inland from Ranlett Grove. It leaves Ranlett Lane and runs north, past the end of Satuckett Lane, then bends north-east to Lupine Lane, parallel to Mirror Road on the west. It was laid out fifty feet wide on a "Subdivision Plan of Land in Billerica" drawn by George H. Poor, surveyor, in November 1967, which re-divided earlier lots of the old Ranlett farm, registered in the Land Court as case 2792, into house lots numbered 326 to 405 on Solar Road, Mirror Road, Edgar Road, Kirk Road, Hilary Road and Pinetree Road. The court approved the plan on January 27, 1970, and it was registered on June 5, 1970 as Land Court Plan 2792-T (Registration Book 89, Page 29). The plan names no owner; the town's 1973 report called the development "Ranlett Grove," after the older colony beside it.

The plan does not explain the name, and its origin was not found. The assessors date the first house on the street to 1971 and most of the others to 1972 to 1974.

The annual town meeting warrant of 1976 listed the street as "Solar Lane" under Article 37. At the session of May 13, 1976 the town accepted "the laying out of SOLAR ROAD in accordance with a plan on file with the Town Clerk a way 50 feet wide and 1070 feet long"; an amendment to raise $60 for it was lost. Satuckett Lane was accepted at the same session "from Solar Road to beyond Mirror Road." Solar Road was on the Highway Department's list of drainage projects in 1979, when the town engineers also designed drainage for it. It was repaved in fiscal 2004 under the town's Roadway Management Contracts, where it is listed as "Solar Ln," and was crack sealed in 2019, again under the name Solar Lane.

Solar Road

Solar Road

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