claremont is a suburb of the city of glenorchy, part of the greater hobart area, tasmania, australia. it is named after claremont house, which was built in the 1830s by local settler henry bilton, who named it after one of the royal homes of england. claremont was the home of an army training facility during world war i, but this was moved to brighton some time before world war ii. at that time claremont consisted of only a few houses and farms. between the 1960s and the 1980s, public housing was built in the suburb (as happened in the rest of the city of glenorchy).