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Ho Man Tin | |
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 Ho Man Tin Residential | |
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| SAR | Hong Kong |
| District | Kowloon City |
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| Chinese | 何文田 | ||||||||||||||
| CantoneseYale | Hòh màhn tìhn | ||||||||||||||
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Ho Man Tin is a mostly residential area inKowloon, Hong Kong, part of theKowloon City District.
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Section of lists of villages in the bookXin'an Xianzhi (literallyThe History ofXin'an County) published in twenty fourth year ofJiaqing 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 nowadayMong Kok. With cultivated lands, it was surrounded in the north byArgyle Street, west byCoronation Road (present-dayNathan Road), and east byQuarry Hill,No. 12 Hill and Tai Shek Kwu (present-day Kadoorie Hill). Southeast from its original location isFo 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,田, which means field. The "Ho" (何) and "Man" (文) 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.[1]
In the 1950s and 1960s, the eastern hills to the original site of Ho Man Tin became aresettlement area for refugees from China, the city building there theHo Man Tin 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 andKowloon Hospital. The area is within the district of theKowloon City police station.
Today, Ho Man Tin is home to manypublic housing estates 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.
Educational institutions in Ho Man Tin include:
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).[2]
Princess Margaret Road,Waterloo Road,Argyle Street andPui Ching Road 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 of theMass Transit Railway (MTR) is not located in Ho Man Tin proper but in the lesser known areaLo Lung Hang instead. The central part of Ho Man Tin betweenArgyle Street andWaterloo Road is in fact more than 1 km (0.62 mi) away on foot. This led to a debate on its naming circa the station's opening.[3][4]The closest station to Ho Man Tin proper is actuallyMong Kok East on theEast Rail line.
