Leighton Hill

alternative Leigton Hill

1. A hill in Wan Chai district, Hong Kong.

   A residential site at Leighton Hill in Causeway Bay is expected to sell for more than $3 billion when tenders close on Friday.

   1998 April 15, Peggy Sito, Sandy Li, “Leighton Hill plum to point the way”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 Sep 2023

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   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.

   1922, Great Britain. Colonial Office, Colonial Reports - Annual, page 17

   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.

   1956, Francis Albert Eley Crew, “The Defence and Fall of Hong Kong December 7-25, 1941”, in The Army Medical Services: Campaigns, volume II, →OCLC, page 20

   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[…]

   2014 July 1, Kwong Chi Man, Tsoi Yiu Lun, “The Fall of Hong Kong, December 1941”, in Eastern Fortress: A Military History of Hong Kong, 1840–1970, Hong Kong University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 216