Strafford County, NH — Dover, Rochester & UNH Durham

Spaulding Turnpike (NH-16) / US-4 / Amtrak Downeaster

Strafford County, NH is the New Hampshire Seacoast county immediately north of Rockingham County. Anchored by Dover (Strafford County seat and the 7th-largest city in NH, one of the oldest continuously inhabited European settlements in the US, founded 1623), Rochester ('the Lilac City,' a historic mill town), Somersworth (on the Salmon Falls River opposite South Berwick ME), Durham (home of the University of New Hampshire — the state's flagship public university with ~15,000 students), Barrington, Farmington, Milton NH, Lee, Madbury, Middleton, and Strafford. Served by the Amtrak Downeaster with stops at Dover and Durham.