Lambeth Walk (Hong Kong)
Lambeth Walk (Chinese: 琳寶徑) is located in Central, Central and Western District, Hong Kong Island. It starts from Cotton Tree Drive near Harcourt Road in the east, passes by the Bank of America Center and Lambeth Walk Leisure Garden, and connects to the junction of Chater Road and Murray Road in the west.
History
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Lambeth Walk in Central is named after the famous Lambeth Walk in south London, made famous by the 1937 musical Me and My Girl.[1]
The area surrounded by Harcourt Road, Cotton Tree Drive, Murray Road and Queensway was originally a parking lot and was only developed in the 1970s. Among them, Lambeth Walk was built and gazetted in 1975.[2] At that time, it was an eastbound one-way road.
The government of Hong Kong announced on December 13, 1985, that it planned to build a covered elevated pedestrian system along Lambeth Walk to the north of the Murray Road multi-storey car park in Central District to connect the pedestrian paths of Admiralty Station of the Mass Transit Railway, Chater Garden and Queensway Flyover.[3]
As part of the "Connaught Road Improvement Project", the Lambeth Walk was changed from a two-way to a one-way westbound traffic on November 8, 1987.
Henderson Land successfully won the bid for the No. 2 Murray Road development project in Central in 2017, and proposed to the Policy Innovation and Coordination Office to optimize the adjacent Lambeth Walk Rest Garden.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ Pang, Diana (2023-08-27). "Around the world in a day with Hong Kong's street names". Hong Kong Free Press HKFP. Retrieved 2025-04-18.
- ^ Hong Kong Government (1975) Urban Council Notice: Street Naming", Hong Kong Government Gazette No. 586, Volume 117, Issue 11, March 14, 1975.
- ^ "電影推廣服務科 - 拍攝場地". fpf.ccidahk.gov.hk (in Chinese (Hong Kong)). Retrieved 2025-04-18.
- ^ "優化琳寶徑休憩花園 拆現有天橋建觀景階梯 料2025年完工". on.cc東網 (in Chinese (Hong Kong)). 2022-06-23. Retrieved 2025-04-18.