History
The original area of Ho Man Tin was quite different from the present-day one. It was located in the heart of nowaday Mong Kok. With cultivated lands, it was bounded north by Argyle Street, west by Coronation Road (present-day Nathan Road), and east by hills. Southeast from its original location is Fo Pang and to the south Mong Kok. Streams from those hills east offered water for cultivation, the latter reflected in the area's name last Chinese character, i.e. tin, 田, which means field. The "Ho" (何) and "Man" (文) part of the name are both Chinese surnames; so Ho Man Tin represents the agricultural land owned by the "Ho" and "Man", the major families who took their residence around the area.
In the 1950s and 1960s, the eastern hills to the original site of Ho Man Tin became a resettlement area for refugees from China, the city building there the Ho Man Tin Estate, which gave the name Ho Man Tin to that section of the hills, thus shifting away name-wise from the original flat fields. This present-day Ho Man Tin is close to Argyle Street and Kowloon Hospital. The area was within the district of the Kowloon City police station.
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