Whether using binoculars, a small telescope or the naked-eye, the Heavens-Above
website can help you to find your way around the night-time sky. In addition to detailed
sky charts, their website will help you find planets, asteriods, comets, satellites and their tracks across the sky.
To give accurate results, Heavens-Above requires the latitude and longitude of your location. As a starting point, when we link to Heavens-Above,
we pass this GPS location for Cheapside:
42.572308, -72.585645
Once you're on the Heavens-Above website, you can improve its accuracy by giving a more precise longitude and latitude as your actual position.
Open the Heavens-Above website centered on Cheapside
Bird Watching ...
We enjoy finding new spots for bird watching and we use the eBird website for local sighting reports and to help identify hotspots.
The eBird website is organized on a county-by-county basis. We have selected Franklin County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found four communities that are also named Cheapside.
Within Massachusetts, the name Cheapside is unique.
Beyond Massachusetts, we know of four communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these four communities, three are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Connecticut
New London County
This community is historic<1> and although located in New London County, we don't know where within the county.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the New London County community of Cheapside.
Ontario
This Cheapside lies 375 miles [603.5 km]<2> to the west of the Cheapside that is located in Franklin County.
Texas
Gonzales County
This Cheapside is located in Gonzales County and lies 1,653 miles [2,660.2 km]<2> to the west southwest of the Cheapside that is located in Franklin County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Gonzales County community of Cheapside.
Virginia
Northampton County
This Cheapside is located in Northampton County and lies 412 miles [663 km]<2> to the south southwest of the Cheapside that is located in Franklin County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Northampton County community of Cheapside.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Cheapside ...
As we travel, we always see a community with a name that gives pause. While there are names which are interesting or familiar, some catch our attention or strike our fancy. We always wonder about such a name. If time permits and the community is not too far, we'll usually try to make a side-trip.
We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers, Almanacs & Directories that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Cheapside to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Cheapside and extending to:
Boston, which is the State Capital of Massachusetts, lies 79 miles [127.1 km]<2> to the east (E). If you could drive a straight line from Cheapside to Boston, with an average speed<3>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take less than two hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 5 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take most of three days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 344 miles [553.6 km] to the southwest (SW). Driving would take five to six hours, a buggy would take 14 days and walking would take 20 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,559 miles [8,946.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,270 miles [10,090.6 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,146 miles [6,672.3 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Cheapside, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Cheapside) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<3>
While we have tried to pick reasonable speeds, the rate of travel is very theoretical - obstacles like fences, hills, lakes, river crossings and rest stops have been ignored. When we say 'Days' of travel, we're assuming 8 hours of travel per day.
<4>
The shortest line can be visualized by stretching a string on a Globe from Point A to Point B - this is known as a Great Circle Route. Where you might expect the shortest route from Cheapside to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Cheapside. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 42.5723, Longitude: -72.5856 In this case, the coordinates for Cheapside have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 304.864 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 300.606 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 301.156 degrees.