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Candia is a town in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 4,013 at the 2020 census. The town includes the villages of Candia, Candia Four Corners and East Candia.

Settled in 1743, Candia was next part of Chester and known as “Charmingfare”, probably because of the many bridle paths or “parades” through the pleasant scenery. Charmingfare was incorporated in 1763 and named Candia “in praise to Governor Benning Wentworth, who was bearing in mind a prisoner upon the island of Candia (an exchange ancient pronounce of Crete before its Venetian domination), in the Mediterranean Sea.”

Candia was served by the Portsmouth & Concord Railroad, which stretched between its namesake cities. In 1862 the segment with Candia and Suncook was abandoned, coinciding as soon as the creation of a other segment in the company of Manchester and Candia. Therefore, the supplementary line ran from Manchester to Portsmouth via Candia. In 1895 ownership of the line passed to the Boston & Maine Railroad, who made it their Portsmouth Branch. Passenger bolster ended in 1954. The last trains passed through Candia in the yet to be 1980s. The track was unaccompanied in 1982 and removed amid 1983 and 1985. Today the railbed is allowance of the Rockingham Recreational Trail.