The area borders
Needham, Massachusetts to the southwest,
Wellesley, Massachusetts to the west, the
West Roxbury neighborhood of
Boston to the southeast,
Newton Highlands to the north and northeast,
Waban to the northwest and
Oak Hill to the east. The village is served by
Eliot "T" station, part of the
Green Line D branch of the
MBTA, with rail service inbound into downtown
Boston and outbound to
Riverside. Major roads that serve the village are
Route 128, and
Route 9 (Boylston Street), which provides a direct, six-mile commute into downtown
Boston. Newton Upper Falls is home to the
Hemlock Gorge and
Echo Bridge, a aqueduct turned pedestrian walkway over the
Charles River. It has over 150 homes on the historic register. Sullivan Avenue, an unpaved private road in Newton Upper Falls, is the last remaining portion of the ancient highway connecting
Boston and Cambridge with Newton and points west in the 17th century (back then it was called Cambridge Village). Also on Sullivan Avenue is a famous pothole; a geological anomaly where a boulder that was originally pushed down the cliff by a now extinct waterfall got caught and became round. The boulder spun around in its place carving a shaft over thousands of years. Since then, half the shaft collapsed and now all that can be seen is half of a cylindrical shaft through the cliff at the corner of Sullivan and Elliot Streets.
Historic landmarks •
Echo Bridge, between Ellis St and Reservoir St •
Saco–Pettee Machine Shops, 156 Oak St. •
Saco–Lowell Shops Housing Historic District == History ==