Arbuthnot Road

Street in Central, Hong Kong

Arbuthnot Road

Traditional Chinese

亞畢諾道

Simplified Chinese

亚毕诺道

Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Yàbìnuò Dào
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutping	Ngaa³-bat¹-nok⁶ Dou⁶

Arbuthnot Road is a road in Central, Hong Kong. The road begins at the Former Central Magistracy, a declared monument of Hong Kong.^[1] The road ends at the Hong Kong Zoological and Botanical Gardens.

History

Most of the roads built and declared at the outset in Colonial Hong Kong in 1841 were close to the waterfront. The Magistracy was not established until 1847 and the land on which it was built was previously largely unoccupied. Arbuthnot Road is rather inclined, and runs between Hollywood Road and Caine Road, the latter of which was not named until 1859. It is likely that it was not named or created until the 1850s or later; it was named after George Arbuthnot.^[2]

Notable buildings

No. 1: Hong Kong Police Club, former Central Magistracy
No. 2: Cafe O, Ovolo Hotels
No.s 3-5a: Universal Trade Centre including the Orthodox Metropolitanate of Hong Kong and South-East Asia^[3] and the St Luke Cathedral of Hong Kong
No.s 4-8: Philia Lounge
No.s 4-8: G/F La Kasbah (North African Food), 1/F Wild Grass (Western Restaurant)
No.s 4-8: SK serviced apartments
No. 10: Chez Moi (French restaurant)

References

^ Discover HongKong - Heritage - Declared Monuments Archived August 23, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
^ Frank H. H. King (January 1988). The History of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation: Volume 1, The Hongkong Bank in Late Imperial China 1864-1902: On an Even Keel. Cambridge University Press. p. 107. ISBN 0-521-32706-7.
^ Official website Archived 2007-02-03 at the Wayback Machine, Orthodox Metropolitanate of Hong Kong and South-East Asia