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Neil Road (
Chinese
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: 尼路) is a one-way
road
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in
Chinatown
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and
Tanjong Pagar
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in the
planning areas of
Outram and
Bukit Merah
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in
Singapore
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. The road starts at the junction of
South Bridge Road
South Bridge Road () is a major road in Singapore, running south of the Singapore River in Chinatown. It starts at Elgin Bridge and ends at the junction of Neil Road, Tanjong Pagar Road and Maxwell Road.
Landmarks
* Buddha Tooth Relic Temple ...
,
Maxwell Road
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and
Tanjong Pagar Road
Tanjong Pagar ( alternatively spelled ''Tanjung Pagar'') is a historic district located within the Central Business District in Singapore, straddling the Outram Planning Area and the Downtown Core under the Urban Redevelopment Authority's urb ...
and ends at Kampong Bahru Road which then merges into
Jalan Bukit Merah. At the end of the road, it is a
conservation area
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of several
shophouse
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s and a three-story
Victorian style
school
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building, which was the former site of
Fairfield Methodist Girls' School. In the
Tanjong Pagar
Tanjong Pagar ( alternatively spelled ''Tanjung Pagar'') is a historic district located within the Central Business District in Singapore, straddling the Outram Planning Area and the Downtown Core under the Urban Redevelopment Authority's urb ...
area of the road, it is home to rows of conserved shophouses for various purposes.
Etymology
The road was formerly known as Silat, Selat or Salat Road, the Malay term for "straits" before renamed in 1858 to Neil Road.
The Municipal Council renamed the road in honour of Colonel Neil of the
Madras Fusiliers
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in India, who was involved in the
Indian Rebellion of 1857
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.
In Hokkien, the road was known as ''goo chia chwee sia lo'', which means "steep street of Kreta Ayer".
Notable buildings
House number 147 belonged to
Lee Hoon Leong
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, the grandfather of former
Prime Minister of Singapore
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,
Lee Kuan Yew
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, who bought the house in 1920 for
$25,000.
Lee Kuan Yew lived in the house for a few years with his parents and grandfather.
In 1912,
Fairfield Girls’ School moved into a Victorian-style three-storey building on Neil Road in 1912.
In 1983, the school moved out of the Neil Road.
References
Roads in Singapore
Chinatown, Singapore
Protected areas of Singapore
Bukit Merah
Outram, Singapore
Tanjong Pagar
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