Road Name: | Hampton Road |
Type: | road |
State: | wa |
Length: | 2.9 |
Route: | State Route 12 |
Direction A: | North |
End A: | Ord Street (State Route 12), Fremantle |
Direction B: | South |
End B: | Cockburn Road (State Route 12), South Fremantle |
Through: | 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] It continues into Ord Street at the north east corner of Fremantle Prison at Knutsford Street.
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, Bundi Kudja, and St Pauls Anglican Church in Beaconsfield.[3] [4]
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.
All intersections below are controlled by traffic signals unless otherwise indicated.