Glenealy, Hong Kong
street in Central, Hong Kong
Glenealy (Chinese: 己連拿利; formerly 忌連拿利) is one of the few thoroughfares in Hong Kong without a street type suffix. Located in the Mid-Levels on Hong Kong Island, it starts at the junction of Wyndham Street and Lower Albert Road, winding its way uphill to the Hong Kong Zoological and Botanical Gardens, where it continues as a pedestrian footpath to Robinson Road, and ends at the junction with Hornsey Road and Conduit Road.
Name
Glenealy is the short form of a valley called Glenealy Ravine (Chinese: 己連拿利谷; Jyutping: gei2 lin4 naa4 lei6 guk1). The valley separates Government Hill in the east from Pedder's Hill in the west.
The valley was previously known as Elliot's Vale (義律谷; ji6 leot6 guk1), after Charles Elliot, and the road leading to the house named Glenealy which was located on the site of the present Roman Catholic cathedral is known as Elliot Crescent.
Vale in Elliot's Vale means 'river valley', and a river does indeed run from Victoria Peak down to Central. The Elliot Vale name seems, however, to have been as short-lived as Elliot's administration. The name Glenealy was quickly restored after Elliott's administration ended, and the Ravine suffix added as befitting of the valley's steepness.
Features
Glenealy was also the name of a mansion in the Victorian era. It belonged to an American opium trader, Warren Delano Jr., grandfather of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the United States of America.
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