Hampton Road

Hampton Road
Western Australia
Hampton Road at the southern end, looking north from the Rockingham Road and Cockburn Road intersection.
General information
Type Road
Length 2.9 km (2 mi)
Route number(s) State Route 12
Major junctions
North end Ord Street (State Route 12), Fremantle
 
South end Cockburn Road (State Route 12), South Fremantle
Location(s)
Major suburbs South Fremantle, Beaconsfield

Hampton Road is the main road entering the City of Fremantle from the south. It is named after John Stephen Hampton, the Governor of Western Australia from 1862 to 1868.[1]

At the Cockburn Road and Rockingham Road intersection, which forms the southern terminus of the road, traffic bound for Fremantle arrives from Spearwood and Kwinana further south, and is brought through a high-density residential area, and past Fremantle Hospital and the old Fremantle Prison, two of Fremantle's landmarks.

Major intersections

See also

Australian Roads portal

References

  1. Ewers, John K. (1971). The Western Gateway: A History of Fremantle (2nd ed.). Nedlands, Western Australia: University of Western Australia Press for the Fremantle City Council. p. 223. ISBN 085564 050 2.

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