The Village contains about 200 single-family residences and a few religious and professional establishments. We are located between Connecticut Avenue, on the western boundary, and Jones Bridge Road to the south. To the north is the Capitol Beltway (US 495) and, beyond that, Rock Creek Park. To the east is an unincorporated county residential area. Across Connecticut, kitty corner from the village is the Howard Hughes Institute, and across Jones Bridge Road from the Village is North Chevy Chase Elementary School. A short distance from the village is Woodend, the Audubon Naturalist Society nature preserve. Next to it is a community swimming pool and recreation association to which village residents may apply for membership.

A Brief History

The Village was originally part of one of the earliest land grants in Maryland's Potomac area. Patented in 1698, the approximately 1,400 acre parcel extended to Rock Creek on the north and east, westward to Bethesda, and south toward Chevy Chase Circle. The grant from Charles, third Lord Baltimore, was called Clean Drinking Manor, named for the spring on the property that is still bubbling today. It can be seen on park land just east of Jones Mill Road off Susanna Lane. According to legend, George Washington drank from its waters, for he wrote in his dairy that he "tarried for a thankful rest at Clean Drinking's hospitable hearth.