Rye is a town in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States.

The first settlement in New Hampshire, originally named Pannaway Plantation, was established in 1623 at Odiorne's Point[3] by a group of fishermen led by David Thompson.

[5] In 1726, the town of New Castle set off a parish for Sandy Beach called "Rye", for Rye in Sussex, England, the ancestral lands of the Jenness family who continue to live in the town to this day and even have a beach named after them.

[1] The town is located on the shore of the Atlantic Ocean and includes four of the nine islands known as the Isles of Shoals, which lie approximately 10 miles (16 km) out from the mainland.

The highest point in Rye is the summit of Breakfast Hill, at 151 feet (46 m) above sea level, on the town's border with Greenland.

Rye Beach has its own U.S. post office, as well as its own zoning enforcement and planning regulations.

[12] The dispute was largely quelled by the lack of support for the movement, as only 52 of Newington's 700+ (and 100 of Rye's 5,000) residents signed the petition.

Children who live in Rye can attend public schools in town from kindergarten through eighth grade.

Rye Country Day is the larger of the two pre-schools in town, currently enrolling one hundred and forty students (as of October 2013).

The second, The Children's House Montessori school, is located at 80 Sagamore Road and has a student per teacher ratio of eleven to one.

The organization has a location at 1237 Washington Road in Rye and accepts students in fifth through eleventh grade, as well as third.

Rye was the setting (in part) of the short story "Marjorie Daw" by Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836–1907).