Located six miles west of downtown
Boston, Massachusetts, Chestnut Hill is a wealthy suburban
village notable for its stately old houses, scenic landscape, and the historic campus of
Boston College. Like all
Massachusetts villages, Chestnut Hill is not an incorporated
municipal entity, but unlike most of them, it encompasses parts of three separate municipalities: the
town of
Brookline, the
city of Boston {parts of its neighborhoods of
Brighton and
West Roxbury), and the
city of
Newton, Massachusetts (its village which is also called Chestnut Hill). Chestnut Hill's borders are roughly defined by the Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
ZIP Code.) Chestnut Hill is not strictly a
topographical designation; the name refers to a series of small hills that overlook the 135-acre (546,000 m²)
Chestnut Hill Reservoir rather than one particular hill.
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