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Brentwood, NH
Community Contact Town of Brentwood
Board of Selectmen
1 Dalton Road
Brentwood, NH 03833

Telephone (603) 642-6400x10
Fax (603) 642-6310
E-mail selectmen@brentwoodnh.gov
Web Site www.brentwoodnh.gov

Municipal Office Hours Selectmen: Monday through Thursday, 8:15 am - 4 pm, Friday, 9 am - 1 pm; Town Clerk/Tax Collector: Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, 9 am - 4:30 pm, Tuesday, 9 am - 4:30 pm and 7 pm - 9 pm, Friday, 9 am - 4 pm, and Saturday, 9 am - 12 noon

County Rockingham
Labor Market Area Haverhill MA-NH NECTA Division, NH Portion
Tourism Region Seacoast
Planning Commission Rockingham
Regional Development Rockingham Economic Development Corp.

Election Districts  
US Congress
District 1
Executive Council
District 3
State Senate
District 17
State Representative
Rockingham County District 10
Incorporated: 1742

Origin: Originally a parish of Exeter known as Brentwood Parish, in 1742 residents successfully petitioned for the right to maintain a meetinghouse and minister with public funds. About that same time, during the first year Benning Wentworth was governor, several older and overgrown New Hampshire towns were given authorization to divide into separate units. The name was probably taken from the English town of Brentwood, or Burnt Wood, so called because of a residential community established in an accidentally or deliberately burnt clearing in the king's forest.

Villages and Place Names: Brentwood Corners, Marshall Corner

Population, Year of the First Census Taken: 976 residents in 1790

Population Trends: Population change for Brentwood totaled 2,409 over 50 years, from 819 in 1950 to 3,228 in 2000. The largest decennial percent change was 37 percent, which occurred three times—from 1960 to 1970, from 1970 to 1980, and from 1990 to 2000. The 2007 Census estimate for Brentwood was 3,904 residents, which ranked 98th among New Hampshire's incorporated cities and towns.

Population Density, 2007: 244.7 persons per square mile of land area. Brentwood contains 17.0 square miles of land area and 0 square miles of inland water area.
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