Freemantle

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This article is about the Southampton suburb. For the Australian city, see Fremantle, Western Australia

Freemantle

Coordinates: 50.9117° N 1.4265° W
Unitary authority	Southampton
Region	South East
Constituent country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	SOUTHAMPTON
Postcode district	SO15
Dial code	023
Police	Hampshire
Fire	Hampshire
Ambulance	South Central
UK Parliament	Southampton Test
European Parliament	South East England
List of places: UK • England

Freemantle

Freemantle within Greater Southampton

Freemantle is suburb in Southampton, UK.

Origins of the name are uncertain, but there are similarly named places in Hampshire, notably a suburb of Hannington and Freemantle Common in Bitterne. The name of the Hannington suburb is thought to have come from "Frigidum Mantellum", the latinised form of a French name meaning "cold cloak".^[1]

[edit] History

Freemantle was originally a large house and estate within the parish of Millbrook and before that was a farm house and land within that same parish. In 1851 it was deemed a separate parish, although some sources still refer to Freemantle as being part of Millbrook.^[2] The Freemantle House and Estate was sold by its last owner, Sir George Henry Hewett in 1852, and was bought by Sampson Payne, a local property developer. He disposed of the land in smaller parcels ranging in value from £20 to £100 to various property developers and building societies. Within a short time, he had also intersected the park by nearly twenty roads.^{[citation needed]}

Freemantle began to be built up in the 1850s and is still mostly small Victorian semi detached and terraced houses. The school was built in 1857 and the Church was completed in 1865.

[edit] Freemantle Common

Rather confusingly perhaps, there is also a Freemantle Common in Southampton, although this is a considerable distance from Freemantle itself, in the suburb of Bitterne.