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(Beautiful white sands of Cherry & Webb Beach, looking toward Westport Harbor)
Westport is located in Bristol County
Population: 14,000 The Town of Westport, Massachusetts, is a natural haven nestled securely between Dartmouth, Massachusetts, and the eastern edge of Rhode Island, about an hour’s drive South of Boston and thirty minutes East of Providence. Westport offers beautiful country settings and magnificent beach and waterfront areas, with over eight miles of direct frontage on Buzzards Bay and approximately thirty-five miles of shoreline between the East and West Branch of the Westport River and its estuary.
Known historically for its whaling industry and rum-running enterprises, the Westport coastline has developed into a favorite Mecca for beach-loving tourists and summer residents. Horseneck Beach has been maintained as a State Reservation since 1956, and the Cherry & Webb Beach is managed by the Town, offering tourists and residents magnificent stretches of sandy white beaches and the whimsical drifts of dunes.
Agriculture and fishing remain vital components of Westport’s economy, but tourism has grown dramatically since the 1960’s when Interstate 195 and Route 88 were constructed to provide easy access to Horseneck Beach. Although Westport has become more of a bedroom community, in recent years, for people working in Boston and Providence, its population of nearly fourteen thousand has had little impact on the rural flavor of its sixty-one square miles.
Westport enjoys a fairly stable population, so there are never many listings on the market.
