Leighton Hill
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Named after a civilian F. Leighton.[1]
Proper noun edit
- A hill in Wan Chai district, Hong Kong.
- 1922, Great Britain. Colonial Office, Colonial Reports - Annual, page 17:
- The erection of the following houses for senior officers was completed:-Two blocks each of four houses at Leighton Hill, three houses on Severn Road, one house for the Puisne Judge, and one house for a senior engineer, and, in addition, two contracts were let for two additional blocks of three houses each at Leighton Hill, and for one block containing six flats and four detached houses on the Homestead site, respectively.
- 1956, Francis Albert Eley Crew, The Army Medical Services: Campaigns, page 20:
- The remnants of the Grenadiers held Mt. Cameron, the Royal Scots held Stubbs Road facing Middle Gap and the northern slopes of Mt. Nicholson, the Punjabis, only 35 strong, held the Filter Beds and two weak platoons of the Rajputs, with elements of 1st Middlesex, from Leighton Hill to the western side of Causeway Bay.
- 1998 April 15, Peggy Sito, Sandy Li, “Leighton Hill plum to point the way”, in South China Morning Post[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 September 2023[2]:
- A residential site at Leighton Hill in Causeway Bay is expected to sell for more than $3 billion when tenders close on Friday.
- 2014 July 1, Kwong Chi Man, Tsoi Yiu Lun, Eastern Fortress: A Military History of Hong Kong, 1840–1970, Hong Kong University Press, →ISBN, page 216:
- After taking Bennet's Hill and Leighton Hill, the troops facing the West Brigade would all push westward with the goal of taking, on Christmas Day, the high ground northwest of Wan Chai Gap […]
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Leighton Hill.