Hampton Road

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Hampton Road
Australian State Route 12.svg
Hampton Road at the southern end, looking north from the Rockingham Road and Cockburn Road intersection.
Hampton Road at the southern end, looking north from the Rockingham Road and Cockburn Road intersection.
Length 2.9 km (2 mi)
Direction North-South
From Knutsford Street/Ord Street, Fremantle
Major suburbs South Fremantle, Beaconsfield
To Cockburn Road/Rockingham Road, South Fremantle
Allocation State Route 12
Major junctions Tydeman Road, Canning Highway, James Street

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

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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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Last modified on 4 December 2012, at 18:11