City Boundary of Victoria on Hatton Road

Hatton Road (), also known as "The Morning Trail", is a paved, steep, motor vehicle-free road in western

Hong Kong Island Hong Kong Island is an Islands and peninsulas of Hong Kong, island in the southern part of Hong Kong. Known colloquially and on road signs simply as Hong Kong, the island has a population of 1,289,500 and its population density is 16,390/km ...

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, on

Lung Fu Shan Lung Fu Shan or Hill Above Belcher's is a hill on the northwestern part of Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong, and an area on the northeastern slope of the hill where the main campus and centennial campus of the University of Hong Kong are located. The ...

. It is largely used as a fitness trail for walking, running, and cycling.

Description

The road measures in length. It starts north at the junction with

Conduit Road Conduit Road is a road in the Mid-Levels on Hong Kong Island in Hong Kong. The road and buildings Conduit Road was constructed in 1910. It is located in Western Mid-Levels. It is named after the aqueduct passing underneath which carries wate ...

, where it becomes

Kotewall Road Kotewall Road () is a street in Mid-Levels, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong, located between Po Shan Road and Robinson Road. It is a 400-metre-long two-way road located on hill slopes south of Sai Ying Pun. Name The road was named after Sir Robert ...

, at western

Mid-Levels Mid-Levels is an affluent residential area on Hong Kong Island in Hong Kong. It is located between Victoria Peak and Central. Residents are predominantly more affluent Hong Kong locals and expatriate professionals. The Mid-Levels is further ...

overlooking the

University of Hong Kong The University of Hong Kong (HKU) (Chinese: 香港大學) is a public research university in Hong Kong. Founded in 1887 as the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese, it is the oldest tertiary institution in Hong Kong. HKU was also the fi ...

, which is also the terminus of

NWFB Route 13 NWFB Route 13 on Hong Kong Island is a bus service operated by New World First Bus (NWFB), between Admiralty (Tamar Street) and Kotewall Road, Mid Levels. History Route 13 service was started by China Motor Bus (CMB) on 16 April 1974, when the ...

. There are a few residential apartments along before the road overpasses Po Shan Road. It then winds into the forests to the south and divides

and

Pok Fu Lam Pok Fu Lam or Pokfulam is a residential area on Hong Kong Island, at the western end of the Southern District. It is a valley between Victoria Peak and Mount Kellett, around Telegraph Bay. Pok Fu Lam can claim several ''firsts'' in the histo ...

Country Parks. The road ends southeast at a camping and resting ground near

High West High West or Sai Ko Shan, is a mountain on Hong Kong Island with a height of It is in Central and Western District. Geography High West is located within Pok Fu Lam Country Park and straddles the boundary of Central and Western District ...

, where it intersects Lugard and

Harlech Harlech () is a seaside resort and community in Gwynedd, north Wales and formerly in the historic county of Merionethshire. It lies on Tremadog Bay in the Snowdonia National Park. Before 1966, it belonged to the Meirionydd District of the 197 ...

roads, both leading to

Victoria Peak Victoria Peak is a hill on the western half of Hong Kong Island. It is also known as Mount Austin, and locally as The Peak only generally. With an elevation of , it is the highest hill on Hong Kong Island, ranked 29 in terms of elevation in H ...

. Hikers may also continue following a small path nearby leading to the tip of High West.

Pinewood Battery Pinewood Battery is a historic military site in Hong Kong, located above sea level, within Lung Fu Shan Country Park, in the northwestern part of Hong Kong Island. History Construction of the battery started in 1901 and finished in 1905. Duri ...

, a former anti-aircraft defense built in 1903 can be reached via a footpath branching off Hatton Road (Route 134 10).

Features

One of the seven

boundary stone A boundary marker, border marker, boundary stone, or border stone is a robust physical marker that identifies the start of a land boundary or the change in a boundary, especially a change in direction of a boundary. There are several other ty ...

s of the

City of Victoria Victoria most commonly refers to: * Victoria (Australia), a state of the Commonwealth of Australia * Victoria, British Columbia, provincial capital of British Columbia, Canada * Victoria (mythology), Roman goddess of Victory * Victoria, Seychelle ...

, and the only one being at the original location, is laid on Hatton Road about from its northern end. On the stone is the inscription "City Boundary 1903" and an information board about the stone is few metres away from it.

References

{{reflist Roads on Hong Kong Island Geography of Hong Kong Pok Fu Lam