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Freemantle is a 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". Old Hampshire Gazetteer, Freemantle Park, Hannington, Hampshire 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. Old Hampshire Gazetteer, Freemantle, Southampton 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. 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. 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 . REFERENCES EXTERNAL LINK |
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