Brentwood

Web site: http://brentwoodnh.gov/

Population: 2,590 (1990); 3,197 (2000); 3,780 (2006)

Overview
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.

Geography
Region: Seacoast
County: Rockingham
Distance from:
o Manchester, NH: 32 miles
o Boston, MA: 40 miles
o New York, NY: 250 miles
o Montreal, Quebec: 310 miles

Town Hall
Town of Brentwood
1 Dalton Road
Brentwood, NH 03833
www.brentwoodnh.gov

Municipal Information
Government: Town Meeting
Planning Board: Appointed
Police Department: Full time
Fire Department: Not full time
Nearest Hospital: Exeter in Exeter (5 miles)

Election Districts
State House District: 80
State Senate District: 17
Executive Council District: 3
U.S. Congress House of Representatives District: 1


Schools

Exeter Regional Cooperative School District
http://www.sau16.org/

Swasey Central School
355 Middle Road
Brentwood, NH
Phone 603-642-3487
Fax 603-642-6825
http://scs.sau16.org/

Services
Mary E Bartlett Memorial Library
22 Dalton Rd
Brentwood, NH 03833
(603) 642-3355‎
brentwoodlibrary.org

Brentwood Police Department
1 Dalton Rd
Brentwood, NH 03833
(603) 642-6400

Utilities
Electric: PSNH; Exeter & Hampton; NH Electric
Gas: None
Water Supplier: Private supplier
Sanitation: Private septic
Curbside Trash Pickup: Yes
Telephone: Verizon
Cable television service: Yes