Bristol-Norfolk

Cities

Bristol-Norfolk can be a somewhat rural area, so take the "cities" title with a grain of salt.

• Attleboro — The former "Jewelry Capital of the World" and home to the LaSalette Shrine.
• Foxborough — Home of Gillette Stadium, the New England Patriots, and New England Revolution; also, was home to the former world's largest straw hat making factory.
• Taunton — "The Silver City" and "The Christmas City", the seat of Bristol County, a regional hub, the center of the "Bridgewater Triangle", and a city rich in history.

Towns

• Canton — Headquarters of Reebok, Baskin Robbins, etc., and claims to have been the birthplace of Rising Sun Stove Polish as well as the pay toilet.
• Franklin — Named in honor of Dr. Benjamin Franklin; also, the birthplace of the nation's first lending library and Horace Mann (America's father of public education.)
• Mansfield — Home to the Tweeter Center for the Performing Arts.
• Medfield — Home to one of the ten oldest homes in the U.S., the "lost treasure" of Davis Wolfgang Hawke, and former vacation spot of Walter Elias Disney (aka - Walt Disney.)
• North Attleborough — The early mid-19th century leading producer of buttons in the country.
• Norwood — Area site of one of the original five houses built on the old Indian Trail from Medfield to Wrentham.
• Rehoboth — Claims to be one of the birthplaces of public education in North America and former Guinness Book of Records for the town with the most golf courses in the U.S.
• Seekonk - Home of the oldest continually family-operated racetrack in the USA.
• Sharon — Has one of the lowest crimes rates in the country.
• Stoughton — Named for William Stoughton (the notorious Chief Justice at the Salem Witch Trials) and the site of the written Suffolk Resolves, which was the basis of the Declaration of Independence.
• Walpole — Named after Sir Robert Walpole (the first Prime Minister of Great Britain) and home to one of two of the state's Supermax prisons.

Get in

By car

The easiest and most convenient way to get around Bristol-Norfolk is by car. Primary routes are I-95 running from Boston to Providence, and I-495 connecting MetroWest to Cape Cod. A bit of I-295 is here as well, connecting Attleboro with Providence. US-1 is the other major thoroughfare, roughly running parallel to I-95.

By plane

The two largest airports in the area are Boston Logan International Airport as well as the much smaller T.F. Green Airport in Warwick. Both are connected by the MBTA's Providence Line commuter rail service.

By public transit

Get around

You are all but certain to need a car.

By bicycle

There are not many opportunities for cycling here, with the outstanding exception of the Southern New England Trunkline Trail. Begin your odyssey in Franklin and eventually connect into Providence, and—after many miles—Hartford and New Haven.

Go next

• MetroWest — As the name implies, this is a collection of commuter suburbs and superb historic attractions just west of Boston.
• Greater Boston — The most populated region in New England, this is the urbanized collection of towns that tightly surround the eponymous city.
• South Shore (Massachusetts) — Stretching south to the Cape, it's here where you'll find the "Irish Riviera"; a handful of beach communities nestled along the Atlantic.
• SouthCoast — Discover a deep history of whaling and fishing, Portuguese roots, agriculture, and a once powerful textile industry.
• South County (Massachusetts) — Rolling hills peppered with milltowns and semi-rural suburbs.
• Bristol County (Rhode Island) — Visit the land Massachusetts lost during the great border compromise of 1746.