City of Victoria Boundary Stones
In 1903 the Government of Hong Kong installed boundary stones for the City of Victoria. Nine of these relics of a time gone by remain.
Sai Ning Road,
Mount Davis. Rediscovered in late 2021.
Pok Fu Lam Road, near its junction with Smithfield.
Lung Fu Shan. Rediscovered in late 2021.
Hatton Road, 400m from its start at Kotewall Road.
Old Peak Road, in the first stretch of trail above mid-levels housing.
Cheung Chau Boundary Stones
Cheung Chau Boundary Stones No. 2
Cheung Chau Boundary Stones No. 4. Next to it there's what looks like half of number 5 which is no longer in its original position.
Cheung Chau Boundary Stones No. 9
Cheung Chau Boundary Stones No. 11
Cheung Chau Boundary Stones No. 13
Kowloon Water Works
Kowloon Water Works Boundary Stone No 1 at Beacon Hill, inscribed K.W.W. 1902 No. 1
Kowloon Reservoir was constructed between 1901 and 1910, it was the fourth reservoir in Hong Kong but the first to be built on the Kowloon Peninsula.
Kowloon Water Works Boundary Stone No 2 at Beacon Hill, inscribed K.W.W. 1902 No. 2
Kowloon Water Works Boundary Stone No 6 at Piper's Hill, inscribed K.W.W. 1902 No. 6
Kowloon Water Works Boundary Stone No 16 at Golden Hill, inscribed K.W.W. 1902 No. 16
It has also been repurposed as a geodetic traverse station no. TV111.23.
Kowloon Water Works Boundary Stone No 17 off Golden Hill, the inscription has been chiselled away.
Lantau Boundary Obelisks
Lantau North Obelisk
Two small obelisks fixed in 1902 at longitude 113°52’0” E to state the north and south boundaries of Lantau by Liet. and Comr. F.M. Leake R.N. and the officers of H. M. S “Bramble”.
Lantau South Obelisk
1902
THIS STONE IS IN LONGITUDE 113°52’0” E. FIXED BY LIEUT AND COMR F. M. LEAKE R. N. AND THE OFFICERS OF H. M. S “BRAMBLE”FROM HERE THE BOUNDARY FOLLOWS THE WESTERN SHORE OF LANTAU ISLAND UNTIL IT MEETS A SIMILAR STONE ERECTED IN THE SAME LONGITUDE ON THE NORTH SIDE OF THE ISLAND SOUTHWARD. THE BOUNDARY EXTENDS TO THE PARALLEL OF 22°9’0” N.
This stone is placed 200 feet above
Victoria Barracks
War Department boundary stone #37 on Kennedy Road
War Department boundary stone #7
War Department boundary stone #7
War Department boundary stone #3
War Department boundary stone #3
War Department boundary stone #1
Royal Naval Hospital
Naval Boundary Stone #7, Site of Former Royal Naval Hospital, on the south side of Queens Road East between Kennedy Road and Stubbs Road.
Naval Boundary Stone #8, Site of Former Royal Naval Hospital, on the south side of Queens Road East between Kennedy Road and Stubbs Road.
Harlech Road
War Department Boundary Stone #11 - Harlech Road
War Department Boundary Stone #18 - Harlech Road
War Department Boundary Stone #10 - Harlech Road
Military Reserve at the eight mountains of Kowloon
War Department boundary stone at Kowloon Pass
Military Marker Stone
Military Marker Stone
Military Marker Stone
Military Marker Stone at Kowloon Pass
Military Marker Stone
Other War Department Boundary Stones
War Department Boundary Stone #5 on Haiphong Road, at the corner of what used to be the Whitfield Barracks.
War Department Boundary Stone at the entrance of Signal Hill Garden
War Department Lot 54 Boundary Stone at Signal Hill
War Department Lot 54 Boundary Stone at Signal Hill
War Department Boundary Stone at Aberdeen Reservoir Road.
War Department Boundary Stone #6 at Pottinger Battery
Defence Lot 1 - The Prince of Wales Barracks
Dotted around the PLA Barracks in Central are 40 or 50 boundary markers inscribed with D.L. 1 for Defence Lot 1, what was the British Central Barracks at Tamar.
Defence Lot 4 - Queen's Lines
Thousands of people walk past them every day but probably don't notice the wartime air raid shelters on Queen's Road East at the junction with Hennessy Road and Justice Drive near Pacific Place. They are unused now, close by to other moth-balled military buildings in the area.
Look out for the boundary markers D.L. 4 - Defence Lot 4 - that stretch all the way up the hill to the old Victoria Barracks ammunition magazine where the Asia Society is now.
Defence Lot 5 - Bonham Tower Barracks
D.L. 5 - Bonham Tower Barracks at 88 Bonham Road. Renamed Western District Barracks after the handover.
Defence Lot 6 - Gun Club Hill Baracks
Gun Club Hill Barracks, later known as Defence Lot 6, were British barracks in King's Park. The military began using the area shortly after 1860 when the British acquired Kowloon. The Chinese PLA occupy the space now but you can still see a few reminders in the way of boundary marker stones, a cannon at one of the entrances and colonial military buildings inside.
Defence Lot 14 - Galipoli Lines
Defence Lot 14: Galipoli Lines on Sha Tau Kok Road.
Other boundary stones and markers
Governor's Residence, by the Pavillion at Victoria Peak Garden
Governor's Residence boundary stone outside Government House. It was originally on Harlech Road on the Peak, marking Mountain Lodge.
S.J.C. 1886 - at St John's Cathedral on Garden Road in Central
Boundary Stone of the Li House not far from the ferry pier in Mui Wo, Lantau
Kwan Tai Lo Milestone erected in 1846, close to Tai Tam Byewash Reservoir. There's also a '5 Miles to Victoria' milestone in the HK Museum of History.
A.H. Boundary Stone at 46-50 Bonham Road