Located just east of the community of Webster in the Town of Webster. According to the Guiness Book of Records, the name Chargoggagoggmanchauggauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg is the fifth longest word in the world and the longest lake name anywhere (The Boston Globe, 1992). The lake is comprised of three ponds joined by two narrow channels.
According to Wise Owl, chief of the Chaubunagungamaug band of Nipmucks, Chargoggagoggmanchauggauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg is an Indian word for a neutral fishing place near a boundary, or a meeting and fishing spot shared by several Indian tribes. The name translates loosely as either "the boundary lake" or "You fish on your side, I fish on my side, nobody fishes in the middle." In 1642, Woodward and Saffery, the first surveyors of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, called it "The Great Pond." In 1645, Connecticut Governor John Winthrop called it "The Lakes of Quabage." In a 1707 survey, John Chandler recorded the name as "Chaubunnagungamoug."