Carnarvon Road () is a street in

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. It forms the shape of an uppercase "J", linking

Kimberley Road Kimberley Road () is a road in Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong. Location Starting at Nathan Road in the west, it runs eastwards until Observatory Road and continues northeastwards. The Road runs parallel to and north of Kimberley Street, Cam ...

(near

Knutsford Terrace Knutsford Terrace () is a Terrace (building), terrace street in Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon in Hong Kong. It is famous for its bars, pubs and restaurants. On the south slope of Observatory Hill, Hong Kong, Observatory Hill, Knutsford Terrace is hidd ...

) and

Nathan Road Nathan Road () is the main thoroughfare in Kowloon, Hong Kong, aligned south–north from Tsim Sha Tsui to Sham Shui Po. It is lined with shops and restaurants and throngs with visitors, and was known in the post–World War II years as the Gol ...

Name

The street is named after

Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon Henry Howard Molyneux Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon, (24 June 1831 – 29 June 1890), known as Lord Porchester from 1833 to 1849, was a British politician and a leading member of the Conservative Party. He was twice Secretary of State for the ...

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from 1866 to 1867 and from 1874 to 1878. The

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and

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to which the title of

Earl of Carnarvon Earl of Carnarvon is a title that has been created three times in British history. The current holder is George Herbert, 8th Earl of Carnarvon. The town and county in Wales to which the title refers are historically spelled Caernarfon, having b ...

refers are historically spelled ''Caernarfon,'' having been Anglicised to Carnarvon or Caernarvon.

Shopping

The area east of Nathan Road, comprising

Cameron Road Cameron Road () is a street in Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong. Location The west end of Cameron Road is Nathan Road while the east end is Chatham Road South, and it is almost parallel to Granville Road and Mody Road. Name Cameron Road is ...

Granville Road Granville Road () is a street in Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong. Location The street consists of two sections: a western section running between Nathan Road and Chatham Road South, which runs almost parallel to Kimberley Road, Cameron Road and Kimb ...

and Carnarvon Road has been described as having "teeming shops" and likely the main reason that Hong Kong acquired the "shopping paradise" tag, a phrase first put into print in an ironic manner by author

Han Suyin Rosalie Matilda Kuanghu Chou (; 12 September 1917 or 1916 – 2 November 2012) was a Chinese-born Eurasian physician and author better known by her pen name Han Suyin (). She wrote in English and French on modern China, set her novels in East an ...

, in her 1952 novel '' A Many-Splendoured Thing''.

Roads nearby

Hanoi Road Hanoi Road () is a short road between Carnarvon Road and Mody Road in Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong. It was built in 1892 and opened to traffic in 1893 as “East Road”. It originally started at Chatham Road. After the construction of Mody ...

* Kimberley Street *

*Hau Fook Street *

Hart Avenue Hart Avenue () is a Y-shaped street in Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong, located between Carnarvon Road and Chatham Road. It was given the name 'Hart Avenue' after Sir Robert Hart, 1st Baronet, a British consular official in China. The northwe ...

*Humphrey's Avenue *Bristol Avenue

Nearby

East Tsim Sha Tsui station East Tsim Sha Tsui () is a station of the Mass Transit Railway (MTR) system of Hong Kong. It is currently an intermediate station on the . The station was built to alleviate surface traffic jams and passenger congestion at Kowloon Tong stat ...

Tung Ying Building Tung Ying Building () was a 17-storey office building and shopping centre at 100 Nathan Road, at the corner of Granville Road in Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong. It was built in the 1960s and its style of architecture had become rare in Hong ...

References

External links

* Roads in Kowloon Tsim Sha Tsui {{HongKong-road-stub