Hampton, Victoria

Infobox Australian Place | type = suburb
name = Hampton
city = Melbourne
state = vic


caption =
lga = City of Bayside
postcode = 3188
pop = 11,825 (2006) Census 2006 AUS | id = SSC21315 | name = Hampton (State Suburb) | accessdate = 2008-03-28 | quick = on]
area = 4.0
est = 1850s
propval = $1,030,000 [ [http://www.domain.com.au/public/suburbprofile.aspx?suburb=Hampton&postcode=3188 Hampton] , accessed 28 March 2008]
stategov = Brighton, Sandringham
fedgov = Goldstein
dist1 = 16
location1= Melbourne
near-nw =
near-n = Brighton
near-ne = Brighton East
near-w = "Port Phillip"
near-e = Hampton East
near-sw =
near-s = Sandringham
near-se = Highett

Hampton is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Its Local Government Area is the City of Bayside. It is located 14km south of Melbourne CBD, on the eastern shore of Port Phillip Bay. Its population is 11,825.

Hampton is located in a wealthy bayside area of Melbourne, wedged between the suburbs of Brighton and Sandringham. Hampton has a vibrant shopping centre along the main road, [http://www.hamptonstreet.com.au/ Hampton Street] , boasting many cafes, restaurants and fashionable boutiques.

ports

The major football club in Hampton is the Hampton Rovers Football Club who compete in the Victorian Amateur Football Association and MSJFL with a total of 22 teams.

The major cricket club in the suburb is the Hampton Cricket Club which has teams in both turf and synthetic competitions. The club has both senior and junior teams and will celebrate its centenary in 2007/08.

The Hampton Angling club is located on the foreshore and is renowned as one of the best Angling clubs in Australia due to its prime location close to Australia's best Snapper fishing waters.

History

Hampton, like Brighton, started off as a place of market gardens in the 1840s and 1850s, supplying fruits and vegetables for Melbourne. In the 1850s, interest started to grow in the beaches in the area as places for daytrips and holidays for Melbourners, particularly Picnic Point, near the current location of Hampton. This expanded when a railway line was built to Brighton Beach in the 1860s. In 1887, the railway line was extended to Sandringham, with a station servicing Picnic Point. It was called Retreat, after the Retreat Hotel at the Point. However, several landmarks in the area, including the beach, had been named Hampton, after a local market gardener Dyas Hampton, and as wealthy landowners began buying subdivided land in the area, they favoured the name Hampton as it sounded more regal. The name was set when the station was renamed Hampton.

The population continued to grow at the start of the new century, with war commission homes being built for returned soldiers. Rapid development occurred in the 1930s when the market gardens were subdivided, and today Hampton is well and truly part of Melbourne's suburban sprawl. The railway station still remains, though not the original building.

References

External links

* [http://www.bayside.vic.gov.au/Documents/castlefield.pdf A walking guide to Hampton]