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Kotewall Road () is a street in Mid-Levels, Hong Kong Island,
Hong Kong Hong Kong)., Legally Hong Kong, China in international treaties and organizations. is a special administrative region of China. With 7.5 million residents in a territory, Hong Kong is the fourth most densely populated region in the wor ...
, located between Po Shan Road and Robinson Road. It is a 400-metre-long two-way road located on hill slopes south of
Sai Ying Pun Sai Ying Pun is an area in Sai Wan, on Hong Kong Island, in Hong Kong. It is administratively part of the Central and Western District. Etymology In Cantonese, ''Sai'' ( zh, t=西, labels=no) means "west" and ''Ying Pun'' ( zh, t=營盤, l ...
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Name

The road was named after Sir Robert Hormus Kotewall, a prominent indian chinese businessman and legislator during the colonial era, who built the road in the 1910s.


History

Kotewall Road was once known for its concentration of vehicle-repairing garages, mainly servicing the wealthy residents of Mid-Levels. Stone House, a Grade III historic building built in 1923 at 15 Kotewall Road is the only garage of this kind remaining, now turned into a private residence.


Nearby places

*
University of Hong Kong The University of Hong Kong (HKU) is a public research university in Pokfulam, Hong Kong. It was founded in 1887 as the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese by the London Missionary Society and formally established as the University of ...
* University Drive


See also

* 1972 Hong Kong landslides


References

* Mid-Levels Roads on Hong Kong Island {{HongKong-road-stub