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13-524: Aberdeen Street is a border street dividing Sheung Wan and Central on Hong Kong Island , Hong Kong. It ascends from Queen's Road Central to Caine Road in Mid-Levels . The street is named after George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen , Foreign Secretary at the time of the cession of Hong Kong Island to the United Kingdom in 1842. In the early days after 1841 , while Choong Wan

26-555: A reference to the location where the British first entered and occupied Hong Kong). Sheung Wan was one of the earliest settled places by the British, and belonged to the historical Victoria City . The site of the original occupation of Hong Kong Island by British forces in 1842 was at Possession Street , between Queen's Road Central and Hollywood Road . A plaque to this effect can be found in Hollywood Road Park at

39-609: Is Discovery Montessori School, a Montessori -based school located at 3/F Mandarin Building, 43B Bonham Strand, Sheung Wan. Discovery Montessori School (DMS) is for children from 6 months to 6 years old, with programs including playgroup, nursery, and kindergarten. Due to the high French expatriate population, the French International School of Hong Kong previously operated a Kindergarten campus in Shops 2-4 on

52-601: Is in Wing On Centre  [ zh ] ( 永安中心 ) in Sheung Wan. Sheung Wan is in Primary One Admission (POA) School Net 11. Within the school net are multiple aided schools (operated independently but funded with government money) and the following government schools: Bonham Road Government Primary School and Li Sing Primary School  [ zh ] (李陞小學). Another school in the area

65-604: Is in Sheung Wan while Green Field Court is in Central. The border's location south of Seymour Road in the Mid-Levels is unknown. The Sheung Wan Route is one part of Central and Western Heritage Trail designed by the Antiquities and Monuments Office and Leisure and Cultural Services Department . The route covers 35 historic buildings and sites in Sheung Wan. Streets in Sheung Wan include: The head office of Wing On

78-742: The Shun Tak Centre has ferries and helicopters to Macau and to several destinations in Mainland China . Numerous bus routes run through Sheung Wan. Central (Macau Ferry) Bus Terminus , located next to the Hong Kong-Macau Ferry Terminal, is one of the largest bus termini on Hong Kong Island. [REDACTED] Media related to Sheung Wan at Wikimedia Commons 22°17′07″N 114°09′05″E  /  22.28524°N 114.15139°E  / 22.28524; 114.15139 Rumsey Street The street

91-633: The eastern side. 22°17′00″N 114°09′08″E  /  22.2833°N 114.1523°E  / 22.2833; 114.1523 Sheung Wan Sheung Wan (Chinese: 上環) is an area in Hong Kong , located in the north-west of Hong Kong Island , between Central and Sai Ying Pun . Administratively, it is part of the Central and Western District . The name can be variously interpreted as Upper District (occupying relatively high ground compared to Central and Wan Chai ), or Gateway District (perhaps

104-410: The entire Castle Lane, the entire Aberdeen Street , the entire Wing Kut Street , the section of Des Voeux Road Central between Wing Kut Street and Wing Wo Street, the section of Wing Wo Street north of Des Voeux Road Central, the section of Connaught Road Central between Wing Wo Street and Rumsey Street, and the section of Rumsey Street from Connaught Road Central to the waterside. Garfield Mansion

117-702: The ground floor of Tung Fai Gardens ( 東暉花園 ) in Sheung Wan. Sheung Wan is served by the Sheung Wan station , formerly the western terminus of the Island line of the MTR metro system. Kennedy Town became the new terminus of the Island on 28 December 2014. Trams also run through Sheung Wan, and one of the tram termini, Western Market , is located at the junction of Des Voeux Road Central and Morrison Street near its namesake. The Hong Kong–Macau Ferry Terminal in

130-433: The top of Possession Street. The foot of Possession Street, Possession Point , was at that time on the shoreline, but is now several hundred yards inland due to reclamation . Sheung Wan is surrounded by Sai Ying Pun in the west, Central in the east, Victoria Harbour in the north and Victoria Peak in the south. Part of the Mid-Levels is located within Sheung Wan. The border between Central and Sheung Wan consists of

143-474: Was merged into the University of Hong Kong , the hospital was also moved to Bonham Road and renamed to Nethersole Hospital. After reclamation of island north, Aberdeen Street was extended in the north by Wing Kut Street ( Chinese : 永吉街 ), a pedestrian lane which hosts a street market . The following list follows a north–south order. (W) indicates the western side of the street, while (E) indicates

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156-546: Was named in 1905 after Robert Murray Rumsey, the Harbour Master of Hong Kong Government . Wing On Department Store is located at the street. Beneath the street is the unused MTR platform of Rumsey station . The station was for an abandoned plan of East Kowloon line . The platform was later incorporated into Sheung Wan station . This Hong Kong road article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This Hong Kong Island location article

169-538: Was planned to be business centre of Victoria City and an area of Westener population, Chinese population was removed from Choong Wan to the area around Tai Ping Shan Street in Sheung Wan and Sheung Wan became the area of Chinese population. South of Hollywood Road was the Alice Memorial Hospital and the College of Medicine where Sun Yat-sen graduated with distinction in 1892. After the college

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