Hammonds Plains, Nova Scotia

Hammonds Plains (2011 population: 11,556) is a Canadian suburban community located in Nova Scotia's Halifax Regional Municipality.

The community is situated along the isthmus of the Chebucto Peninsula with its centre located along Highway 213 (Hammonds Plains Road) approximately midway between Bedford in the east and Upper Tantallon in the west.

The community's border is defined by the Government of Nova Scotia and it is adjacent to Lucasville and Bedford in the east, Timberlea and Stillwater Lake and Upper Tantallon in the south, Upper Hammonds Plains in the west, and Upper Sackville and Middle Sackville in the north.

Hammonds Plains was established as a settlement area for United Empire Loyalists in 1786 along a road running from Birch Cove on Bedford Basin to St. Margaret's Bay. Landowners voted to name the road after the popular outgoing Lt. Governor Andrew Snape Hamond. Further settlers arrived with disbanded soldiers from the Napoleonic Wars and Black Refugees from the War of 1812. The settlement was also the eastern end of the Old Annapolis Road intended to create a settled corridor and transportation link between Halifax and Annapolis Royal. While the Annapolis Road never developed, settlement opened up the a modest amount of viable farmland and more significantly developed many saw mills.

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