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Sandown is a town in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 6,548 at the 2020 census, up from 5,986 at the 2010 census.

Once share of Kingston, Sandown was incorporated as a surgically remove town in 1756 by colonial supervisor Benning Wentworth. It was named for picturesque Sandown upon the Isle of Wight. The first minister of Sandown, the Reverend Josiah Cotton, built the Sandown Meeting House in 1774. It had an 11-foot-high (3.4 m) pulpit and marble columns supporting the gallery, and is nevertheless an excellent example of in advance New England church architecture.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 14.4 square miles (37.4 km), of which 13.9 square miles (36.1 km) are land and 0.50 square miles (1.3 km) are water, comprising 3.39% of the town. Sandown is primarily drained by the Exeter River, part of the Great Bay/Piscataqua River watershed. Phillips Pond, south of the center of town, and Showell Pond, a smaller water body, drain north to the Exeter. Angle Pond, in the southeast corner of the town, and Cub Pond, along Sandown’s eastern border, drain east towards the Powwow River and are allocation of the Merrimack River watershed. The highest lessening in Sandown is the summit of Hoyt Hill, at 505 feet (154 m) above sea level, near the town’s southwest corner.