Hampton, New Brunswick

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Town
Country	Canada
Province	New Brunswick
County	Kings County
Founded	1783
Incorporated Village	1966
Town	1991
Area
• Total	21 km2 (8 sq mi)
Elevation	1 to 77 m (3.2 to 252.62 ft)
Population  (2006)
• Total	4,004
• Density	190.6/km2 (494/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC-4 (Atlantic (AST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-3 (ADT)
Canadian Postal code	E5N
Area code	506
Telephone Exchange	832 943
Website	Hampton

Hampton (2001 pop.: 3,997 ) is a Canadian town in Kings County, New Brunswick.

Located on the Andrew Burns River, 30 kilometres northeast of Saint John, Hampton is the shire town of Kings County. It functioned as the seat of county government between 1850 and 1965 (when county governments were abolished) and is today a service centre for the central Kennebecasis River valley, as well as being an exurb of Saint John.

The town was first settled by United Empire Loyalists in 1783. One area of the town, known now as the Lower Norton Shore, was originally known as the Yankee Shore because of all the Loyalist immigrants in the 1780's.

Hampton is located in the Kennebecasis River valley, where the river flows into a wide flood plain. The Hampton Marshes contain a diverse assortment of wildlife and are one of the town's major tourist attractions. Although Hampton is located far upstream from the Bay of Fundy, its high tides have some effect there nonetheless. The marshes flood every spring during the run-off, and then the water levels vary during the course of the year, offering a constantly changing landscape for different animals, birds and fish. In late years, the marshes have suffered from an invasion of Purple Loosestrife.

The town of Hampton is the birth place of John Peters Humphrey, (one of the drafters of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights), home of the late artist and sculptor John Hooper, popular MLA Bev Harrison, and singer-songwriter Jessica Rhaye.

External links

• Town Website
• New Brunswick Covered Bridges
• Google Map
• See historic Hampton from the Kennebecasis River.