Ho Man Tin is a mostly residential area in

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, Hong Kong, part of the

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History

Section of lists of villages in the book ' (literally ''The History of

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'') published in twenty fourth year of Jiaqing era (A.D. 1819) did not have any record of Ho Man Tin. The original Ho Man Tin was quite different from today's Ho Man Tin. It was located in the heart of nowaday

Mong Kok Mong Kok (also spelled Mongkok, often abbreviated as MK) is an area in Kowloon, Hong Kong. The Prince Edward subarea occupies the northern part of Mong Kok. Mong Kok is one of the major shopping areas in Hong Kong. The area is characterised ...

. With cultivated lands, it was surrounded in the north by Argyle Street, west by Coronation Road (present-day

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), and east by Quarry Hill,

No. 12 Hill No. 12 Hill (), or Hung Hom Hill (), is a hill in Kowloon, Hong Kong, between King's Park and Lo Lung Hang, northwest of Hung Hom and southeast of Ho Man Tin. The Oi Man Estate was built on No. 12 Hill in stages between 1974 and 1975. The place ...

and Tai Shek Kwu (present-day Kadoorie Hill). Southeast from its original location is Fo Pang and to the south Mong Kok. Streams from those hills in the east offered water for cultivation, the latter reflected in the area's name last Chinese character, i.e. ''tin'', , which means field. The "Ho" () and "Man" () part of the name are both Chinese surnames; so Ho Man Tin represents the agricultural land owned by the "Ho" and "Man", the major families who took their residence around the area. At the time of the 1911 census, the population of Ho Man Tin was 470. The number of males was 272. In the 1950s and 1960s, the eastern hills to the original site of Ho Man Tin became a resettlement area for refugees from China, the city building there the

Ho Man Tin Estate Ho Man Tin Estate () is a public housing estate in Quarry Hill, Kowloon City District, Kowloon, Hong Kong. It consists of 9 residential blocks and a shopping arcade, including 8 blocks and the shopping arcade of Ho Man Tin (South) Estate ...

, which gave the name Ho Man Tin to that section of the hills, thus shifting away name-wise from the original flat fields. The present-day Ho Man Tin is close to Argyle Street and

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. The area is within the district of the

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. Today, Ho Man Tin is home to many

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as well as the headquarters of the Housing Authority. Oi Man Estate was on the itinerary of Queen Elizabeth II when she visited Hong Kong in 1975.

Streets and places in Ho Man Tin

*Ho Man Tin Hill *Peace Avenue *Perth Street *

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*Pui Ching Road *Soares Avenue *Victory Avenue * Waterloo Hill

Community facilities

*Perth Street Sports Ground

Public services

Kowloon Public Library The Kowloon Public Library () is a public library located in Ho Man Tin, Hong Kong. It was previously known as the Kowloon Central Library (). It is managed by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department (LCSD), and is one of the major public ...

*Kowloon Rehabilitation Centre * Hong Kong Housing Authority Headquarters

Education

Educational institutions in Ho Man Tin include: *

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* (何文田官立中學) * King George V School * Kowloon Junior School * Pentecostal School *

Pui Ching Middle School The Pui Ching Middle Schools () is a system of Baptist secondary schools first founded in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China and later Hong Kong and Macau. Located at Peizheng Road in Yuexiu District, Guangzhou Pui Ching Middle School is a s ...

* Shun Tak Fraternal Association Seaward Woo College *

St. Teresa Secondary School St. Teresa Secondary School () is a Roman Catholic girls secondary school in Ho Man Tin, Kowloon, Hong Kong.

Workers' Children Secondary School Scientia Secondary School () is a secondary school in Ho Man Tin, Kowloon, Hong Kong. It was formerly called Workers' Children Secondary School () and, before that, Mongkok Workers' Children School (). History Establishment In 1946 the missiona ...

* Yu Chun Keung Memorial College Ho Man Tin is in Primary One Admission (POA) School Net 34. Within the school net are multiple aided schools (operated independently but funded with government money) and two government schools: Farm Road Government Primary School (農圃道官立小學) and Ma Tau Chung Government Primary School (馬頭涌官立小學).

Transport

, Waterloo Road, Argyle Street and

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act as the main arteries of the Ho Man Tin area, and it is conveniently served by public buses. Despite the name,

Ho Man Tin station Ho Man Tin () is an underground MTR rapid transit station on the and the , located beneath Valley Road in Lo Lung Hang, as part of the Sha Tin to Central Link project. The station's lower platforms (serving Kwun Tong line trains) opened on 2 ...

of the

Mass Transit Railway The Mass Transit Railway (MTR) is a major public transport network serving :Hong Kong. Operated by the MTR Corporation Limited (MTRCL), it consists of heavy rail, light rail, and feeder bus service centred on a 10-line rapid transit network ...

(MTR) is not located in Ho Man Tin proper but in the lesser known area

Lo Lung Hang Lo Lung Hang () is a valley northwest of Hung Hom, Kowloon City District, Hong Kong. The place is west of Hok Yuen and it is where the Valley Road Estate was once located. The valley is less visible now, but there is still a street remaining called ...

instead. The central part of Ho Man Tin between Argyle Street and Waterloo Road is in fact more than away on foot. This led to a debate on its naming circa the station's opening. The closest station to Ho Man Tin proper is actually Mong Kok East on the

East Rail line The East Rail line () is one of ten lines of the Mass Transit Railway (MTR) system in Hong Kong. It used to be one of the three lines of the Kowloon–Canton Railway (KCR) network. It was known as the KCR British Section () from 1910 to 1996, ...

References

External links

Hong Kong Housing Authority Exhibition Centre, in Ho Man Tin
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