Named after John Stephen Hampton (who as the Governor of Western Australia, imposed a far stricter regime than in the past, with increased use of flogging as a punishment, and the reintroduction of solitary confinement), Hampton Road continues into Ord Street at the north east corner of Fremantle Hospital at Knutsford Street where at the Cockburn Road and Rockingham Road intersection traffic bound for Fremantle arrives from Spearwood and Kwinana further south, and is brought through a high-density residential area.
John Stephen Hampton (c. 1806  1 December 1869) was Governor of Western Australia from 1862 to 1868. He imposed a far stricter regime than in the past, with increased use of flogging as a punishment, and the reintroduction of solitary confinement. It continues into Ord Street at the north east corner of Fremantle Prison at Knutsford Street. 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. 
