Editing Ho Man Tin (section)

==History==
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Section of lists of villages in the book ''{{ill|lt=Xin'an Xianzhi|Gazetteer of Xin'an County|zh|新安縣誌}}'' (literally ''The History of [[Bao'an County|Xin'an County]]'') published in twenty fourth year of [[Jiaqing Emperor|Jiaqing era]] (A.D. 1819) did not have any record of Ho Man Tin. 

The original Ho Man Tin was quite different from today's Ho Man Tin. It was located in the heart of nowaday [[Mong Kok]]. With cultivated lands, it was surrounded in the north by [[Argyle Street, Hong Kong|Argyle Street]], west by [[Coronation Road]] (present-day [[Nathan Road, Hong Kong|Nathan Road]]), and east by [[Quarry Hill, Hong Kong|Quarry Hill]], [[No. 12 Hill]] and Tai Shek Kwu (present-day Kadoorie Hill). Southeast from its original location is [[Fo Pang]] and to the south Mong Kok. Streams from those hills in the east offered water for cultivation, the latter reflected in the area's name last Chinese character, i.e. ''tin'', {{lang|zh-Hant-HK|田}}, which means field. The "Ho" ({{lang|zh-Hant-HK|何}}) and "Man" ({{lang|zh-Hant-HK|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.

At the time of the 1911 census, the population of Ho Man Tin was 470. The number of males was 272.<ref>{{Cite journal| last = Hase| first = Patrick |author-link=Patrick Hase| title = Traditional Life in the New Territories: The Evidence of the 1911 and 1921 Censuses| journal =Journal of the [[Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch]]| volume = 36| page = 83| year = 1996| url = https://hkjo.lib.hku.hk/archive/files/ecc123316b3526a31a101b3c4cf08a12.pdf| issn = 1991-7295}}</ref>

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. The present-day Ho Man Tin is close to Argyle Street and [[Kowloon Hospital]]. The area is within the district of the [[Kowloon City police station]].

Today, Ho Man Tin is home to many [[Public housing estates in Ho Man Tin|public housing estates]] as well as the headquarters of the Housing Authority. Oi Man Estate was on the itinerary of Queen Elizabeth II when she visited Hong Kong in 1975.