Davidson County · Middle Tennessee
Living in Hillwood
Hillwood is the west Nashville neighborhood between Charlotte Pike and Highway 70, east of West Meade and north of Belle Meade, built out as a subdivision by the Hill family in the years after 1942. It is mid-century brick ranch country on generous lots, with the White Bridge Road corridor and its shopping at the front door.
- County
- Davidson
- Distance to downtown Nashville
- ~7 miles
- Character
- 1950s and 1960s brick ranches on established lots
- Design review
- None. No historic or conservation overlay
What’s actually there
- A subdivision developed by H.G. Hill Jr. on land his father began buying in 1910, a farm then called Cliff Lawn
- Hillwood Country Club, which opened for play in 1957 on Hickory Valley Road
- The White Bridge Road corridor, with Nashville State Community College on it
- Charlotte Pike shopping at White Bridge, including the Target and the Kroger
- The Richland Creek Greenway trailhead at White Bridge Road, running past McCabe Park
- A Metro Historical Commission marker recording the Hill family history, put up in 2019
The housing stock
Predominantly 1950s and 1960s brick ranch, built as one plan rather than assembled over decades, which is why the streets feel consistent. There is no historic or conservation overlay, so redevelopment pressure and tall-and-skinny construction have been working their way in from the White Bridge Road edge. One caution on numbers: a Redfin figure for its Hillwood boundary showed a median above $2 million in April 2025 on very few sales and 162 days on market. That describes a handful of large houses near the country club, not the ranch stock that makes up most of the neighborhood. I price the street, not the label.
Getting around
About seven miles to downtown, fifteen to twenty minutes off-peak by Charlotte Pike or I-40 from White Bridge. Sylvan Park and The Nations are a few minutes east, Belle Meade is south, and the Nashville West retail is right there.
Things to do in Hillwood
Places worth knowing before you decide whether you want to live here.
Hillwood Country Club
6201 Hickory Valley Road. Private club that opened for play in 1957. Sources disagree on who designed the original course, so I will not tell you it was one architect when the club and the golf press say different things.
Nashville State Community College
The White Bridge campus at 120 White Bridge Road, the anchor of that corridor.
Richland Creek Greenway
Trailhead at 22 White Bridge Road, 4.1 paved miles running past McCabe Park.
McCabe Golf Course and Park
4601 Murphy Road, 27 public holes with the greenway alongside.
Target at White Bridge
6814 Charlotte Pike, the big-box anchor of the Charlotte and White Bridge shopping node.
Kroger on Charlotte Pike
5705 Charlotte Pike, the grocery anchor in the H.G. Hill Realty center, which is a nice bit of continuity given who developed the neighborhood.
Costco
6670 Charlotte Pike, at the Nashville West cluster on the western edge.
Checked against each business as of August 18, 2026. Nashville loses restaurants faster than most cities, so if something here has closed since, tell me and I’ll get it corrected.
Subdivisions and named developments in Hillwood
Once you are actually looking, you stop searching by city and start searching by subdivision. These are the names that come up, and what is true about each one that will still be true in three years. No prices, no dues, no days on market, because those change and this page would go stale telling you about them.
Hillwood Estates
The name the whole neighborhood took, developed by the grocery family that had been buying this land since 1910.
- Horace Greeley Hill Sr. and his wife Mamie began buying land around their west Nashville home, Cliff Lawn, in 1910. After Hill Sr. died in 1942, H.G. Hill Jr. began developing it as Hillwood Estates.
- Blocks A through E were recorded in April 1951, with numbered sections running through 1962. There is no Section 13 in the record.
- About 472 parcels carry a Hillwood Estates legal description, on lots running roughly nine tenths of an acre to one and a sixth.
- Hill Jr. donated the land for Hillwood Country Club, on Hickory Valley Road inside the plat, and for Hillwood Presbyterian Church. Two schools carry the Hill name. Greeley Drive is named for the developer’s father.
- No historic overlay, no conservation overlay and no National Register listing anywhere in it.
Brook Meade
A tight 1953 to 1956 build-out of near-uniform acre lots, immediately north of Hillwood Estates.
- Sections 1 and 2 both recorded November 4, 1953, with sections running through 1956 and a Section 8 recorded in January 1961.
- About 392 parcels, with lots running roughly nine tenths of an acre to one and a fifth. The uniformity is the point: this is not a plat with a cheap end and an expensive end.
- Centered on the 800 and 900 blocks of Bresslyn Road and the streets connecting to it, adjoining Hillwood High School.
- Mostly 37205, with a small number of parcels coded 37209 at the north edge, which will show up in a listing search and confuse people.
Hillwood Terrace
One street, three completely different lot sizes, and you can see all three standing in one spot.
- Recorded in April 1958, with later sections.
- About 62 parcels, and the lot sizes come in three distinct tiers: original Terrace lots at one to one and a third acres, Section 2 lots at four to five tenths of an acre, and Section 4 lots at under a quarter acre.
- On Neartop Drive the tiers sit across from each other. Acre-plus lots on one side, half-acre and quarter-acre lots on the other.
- Streets are Neartop Drive, Brookwood Terrace and Brookwood Place.
Hillwood Park
A single 1961 plat on a hillside road, and despite the name it is not in the Hillwood zip.
- Recorded in July 1961 as one plat with no sections.
- About 84 parcels on Knob Road, with lots running roughly eight tenths of an acre to nearly one and a half.
- It is in 37209, not 37205. Every parcel is coded 37209 despite the Hillwood name, which matters if you are searching by zip and expecting Hillwood results.
- Physically separated from the rest of Hillwood, sitting off the Charlotte Pike side on a single hillside road.
Schools
Metro Nashville Public Schools
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Served by Metro Nashville Public Schools. Zoning follows the address and the choice and magnet application runs separately. Hillwood High School moved into a new building on Highway 70 South, so confirm current zoning and campus for the specific address in the district’s Zone Finder rather than going by an older listing.
I publish district and school zoning as published fact and nothing more. No ratings, no rankings, no comparisons. School zones are set by the district, assigned by address rather than by subdivision or city name, and they change. Confirm any address with the district itself, and evaluate the schools yourself against what matters to your family.
What a buyer needs to know here
Three things. First, this is a neighborhood with no overlay and real land value, which means the ranch next door can come down. If a consistent streetscape is part of why you want to be here, understand that nothing but the market is protecting it, and look at what has already been built on the block. Second, Richland Creek. The creek runs near the White Bridge corridor before it reaches the Cumberland, and its worst modern flood was 2010, the largest since 1926. Pull the FEMA panel on any parcel toward that side, and look at where the lot actually drains. Third, short-term rental. Metro will not issue a new non-owner-occupied permit in standard residential zoning, which covers most of these streets, so if rental income is part of your plan, get the parcel zoning confirmed in writing before you buy rather than after.
Common questions
Who built Hillwood?
The Hill family. Horace Greeley Hill Senior started buying the land, a farm called Cliff Lawn, in 1910. After he died in 1942 his son H.G. Hill Junior developed it as Hillwood Estates, gave land for the Presbyterian church, and built the elementary and high schools that carry the family name. The Metro Historical Commission put a marker up in 2019 recording all of it. The Kroger center on Charlotte Pike is still an H.G. Hill Realty property, which is a straight line from 1910 to your grocery run.
What is the shopping like?
Genuinely convenient, which is a real part of the pitch here. The Charlotte Pike and White Bridge node has the Target at 6814 Charlotte Pike and the Kroger at 5705, Costco is at 6670 at the Nashville West cluster, and Nashville State Community College sits at 120 White Bridge Road. Add the Richland Creek Greenway trailhead at 22 White Bridge and McCabe’s 27 holes at 4601 Murphy, and most of a weekend is inside three miles.
Is Hillwood expensive?
It depends entirely which Hillwood you mean, and this is where online numbers mislead people. A Redfin median above $2 million for April 2025 reflects a small number of large houses near the country club on a long marketing time. The mid-century ranch stock that makes up most of the neighborhood trades far below that. Ask me for the comparable sales on the specific street and the number will look nothing like the headline.
Thinking about Hillwood?
What are some of your must haves to make it a perfect home for you in this neighborhood?