Ashmont, Boston

It includes the subsections of Ashmont Hill, Peabody Square, and Ashmont-Adams.

The neighborhood is known for its larger Victorian style houses on the former estates with other side streets such as Fuller, Burt, Dracut, and Wrentham Streets having a denser two and three family development pattern.

Dorchester Avenue in the area has an urban neighborhood commercial development pattern.

The MBTA has Red Line direct subway service to Downtown Boston, Harvard Square and other Cambridge locations (and ultimately to Alewife Station) at the Ashmont station and there is a link to the Mattapan Line trolley going to Mattapan.

Ashmont Hill Architectural Conservation District is a pending Boston Landmark.