(This article is about Southampton suburb. For several places and people with an almost identical name, see Fremantle (disambiguation).) Freemantle is a suburb and electoral ward in Southampton, UK. There are similarly named places in Hampshire: notably Henry II's hunting lodge in Kingsclere; a suburb of Hannington; and Freemantle Common in Bitterne. These were formerly thought to be French names meaning "cold cloak", but are now known to derive from the word fromental, meaning a wheat-field.