Hampton, City of Bayside, Victoria, Australia
Postcode: 3188
Description: Residential suburb and coastal resort
Location: 14 km south of Melbourne, eastern shore of Port Phillip Bay
Named: After D.B. Hampton who arrived in the Port Phillip district in 1842. Railway station named Retreat until it was renamed Hampton in 1889. (Blake)
After a local market gardener Dyas Hampton. (Wikipedia)
Prahran Mechanics’ Institute
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