Hampton Road

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] It continues into Ord Street at the north east corner of Fremantle Prison at Knutsford Street.

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 (1.8 mi)
Route number(s)	State Route 12
Major junctions
North end	Ord Street (State Route 12), Fremantle
	South Street (State Route 13) Rockingham Road
South end	Cockburn Road (State Route 12), South Fremantle
Location(s)
Major suburbs	South Fremantle, Beaconsfield

Heritage buildings and operations in historical properties occur along the length of the road; they include the Fremantle Children's Literature Centre,[2] Hampton Road reserve,[3] Bundi Kudja,[4] and St Pauls Anglican Church in Beaconsfield.[5][6]

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 Fremantle Prison, two of Fremantle's landmarks.

Major intersections

• Stevens Street – to White Gum Valley
• Wray Avenue – to Fremantle Hospital emergency entrance
• South Street (State Route 13 east) – to Hilton, O'Connor, Kardinya and Murdoch University
• Lefroy Road
• Douro Road
• Clontarf Road (East) – to Hamilton Hill
• Rockingham Road – to Hamilton Hill, Spearwood and Kwinana
• Cockburn Road (State Route 12) – to Coogee and Henderson Industrial Estate

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.
2. "View archived webpage". Archived from the original on 19 September 2002.
3. McIlroy, Jack; Building Management Authority of Western Australia (1990), Fremantle Prison : conservation and future use : historical and archaeological assessment of Hampton Road reserve and Henderson Street cottages, Building Management Authority of Western Australia, ISBN 978-0-7244-9672-3
4. Heritage Council of Western Australia (1991), Report for Heritage Council of W.A. : Warick, 79 Solomon Street Fremantle; Atwell, 77 Solomon Street Fremantle; Bundi Kudja, 96 Hampton Road Fremantle, Heritage Council of Western Australia], retrieved 16 December 2016
5. "CONCERT AT ST. PAULS HALL," BEACONSFIELD". The Daily News. XXVIII (10, 758). Western Australia. 27 November 1909. p. 11. Retrieved 16 December 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
6. "ST. PAUL'S CHURCH, BEACONSFIELD". The West Australian. XX (5, 667). Western Australia. 13 May 1904. p. 2. Retrieved 16 December 2016 – via National Library of Australia.

• Google (16 November 2012). "Hampton Road" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved 16 November 2012.