Grafton, also known as Grafton Village, is the central village and a

census-designated place A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only. CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counte ...

(CDP) in the town of Grafton, Windham County,

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, United States. The Grafton Village Historic District occupies approximately the same area. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 49, compared to 645 in the entire town. The CDP is in northern Windham County, southeast of the center of Grafton. It sits in the valley of the Saxtons River, where it is joined by its South Branch. The Saxtons is an east-flowing tributary of the

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. Vermont Route 121 serves as Grafton's Main Street. It leads southeast to Bellows Falls on the Connecticut River and northwest to Londonderry. Vermont Route 35 (Chester Hill Road) runs north out of Grafton, leading to

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. Route 35 joins Route 121 east out of Grafton but later turns south and leads a total of to Townshend.

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Populated places in Windham County, Vermont Census-designated places in Windham County, Vermont Census-designated places in Vermont {{Vermont-geo-stub