Leighton Road () is a main road in
Causeway Bay
Causeway Bay is list of buildings, sites and areas in Hong Kong, an area and Victoria Park, Hong Kong, a bay on Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong, straddling the border of the Eastern District, Hong Kong, Eastern and the Wan Chai District, Wan Chai ...
,
Hong Kong
Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China ( abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delt ...
. It begins east of
Causeway Road
Causeway Road () is a main road in Hong Kong. Situated in Causeway Bay, it joins Yee Wo Street in the west and King's Road. It is a boundary of Eastern District and Wan Chai District. North side of the road is Victoria Park in Eastern District ...
and ends at the west of the junction with
Morrison Hill Road and
Canal Road.
History
Part of the road skirts
Leighton Hill
Leighton Hill () is a hill between Causeway Bay and Happy Valley, and the south of Leighton Road, Hong Kong. There were several air-raid shelters at the downhill of Leighton Hill to protect Victoria City from Japanese occupation during the Batt ...
to its north while part of it runs along
Lee Garden (a property of the
Lee Hysan
Lee Hysan or Lee Hy-san (1879 – 30 April 1928) was a Hong Kong businessman who was involved in the opium trade and refinery, as well as land development in British Hong Kong during the early 1900s. He was nicknamed the ''Opium King'' in Hon ...
family), known as
Jardine's Hill
Lee Gardens () is a hill south of East Point and west of Causeway Bay on the Hong Kong Island in Hong Kong, approximately the area between Percival Street, Hennessy Road and Leighton Road. It was also known as Jardine's Hill or East Point Hi ...
(owned by
Jardine-Matheson) in early colonial days. The area adjacent to the road is relatively quiet compared to the business centre of
East Point East Point is the name of several places:
In Australia
* East Point, Northern Territory
** East Point Military museum located in East Point, Northern Territory
In Canada
*East Point, Prince Edward Island
In Hong Kong:
*East Point, Hong Kong
In ...
of Causeway Bay.
Features
A branch road,
Wong Nai Chung Road
Wong Nai Chung Road ( Chinese: 黃泥涌道) is a major road in Happy Valley, Hong Kong. It is a U-shaped road that encircles the southern and eastern sides of the Happy Valley Racecourse.
Location
Wong Nai Chung Road starts northeast at the j ...
leads to the
Happy Valley Racecourse
The Happy Valley Racecourse is one of the two racecourses for horse racing and is a tourist attraction in Hong Kong. It is located in Happy Valley on Hong Kong Island, surrounded by Wong Nai Chung Road and Morrison Hill Road. The capacity ...
and the upscale residential area of
Happy Valley.
* No. 8. Crowne Plaza Hong Kong Causeway Bay Hotel, an
InterContinental Hotels Group
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-franchised hotel, has been located there since 2009.
* No. 66.
Po Leung Kuk
The Po Leung Kuk, founded as the Society for the Protection of Women and Children, is a charitable organisation in Hong Kong that provides support for orphaned children, education and other services.
History
In the late 19th century, abd ...
headquarters
* No. 77. Leighton Centre (), owned by
Hysan Development Company
Hysan Development Company Limited is a Hong Kong property investment, management and development company that is listed on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong. The company was formed in Hong Kong in 1923, when businessman Lee Hysan acquired plots of ...
, is a grade A office building
* No. 101. Zoroastrian Building (). A first building was erected in the 1930s. The current building was built in 1993.
Zoroastrian Prayer Hall in Causeway Bay
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* No. 111. Lee Garden Six
* No. 133. Lanson Place Hotel ()
* No. 140. St. Paul's Convent School
St. Paul's Convent School (SPCS, ) is a private Catholic girls' school in Hong Kong founded by the Sisters of St. Paul de Chartres from France in 1854. The school was formerly called French Convent School and was renamed St. Paul's Convent ...
* Craigengower Cricket Club
Gallery
See also
* List of streets and roads in Hong Kong
The following are incomplete lists of notable expressways, tunnels, bridges, roads, avenues, streets, crescents, Town square, squares and bazaars in Hong Kong.
Many roads on the Hong Kong Island conform to the contours of the hill landscape. S ...
References
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Causeway Bay
Hong Kong Tramways
Roads on Hong Kong Island
Wan Chai