Happy Valley

Happy Valley

1. A residential area of Wan Chai district, Hong Kong.
   • 2001 April 1, Katherine Ashenburg, “In Hong Kong, the Heart Grows Fonder”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 May 2015, Travel‎^[2]:

     Like much in Hong Kong, Sybil's apartment mingles a certain glamour -- old Chinese furniture and Asian textiles -- with a cold-water-only galley kitchen shared with ants and a plump gecko. Besides mastering its intricacies, I had to shop and do laundry and other errands in Happy Valley, which is where Hong Kong began to insinuate itself into my affections.
     Happy Valley is, as Sybil puts it, ex-pat- friendly, and has been since the 1840's, when the British carved out a racetrack in the swampy north-central part of Hong Kong Island.

   • 2019 September 18, Donny Kwok, Twinnie Siu, Clare Jim, Farah Master, Martin Pollard, Nick Macfie, “Hong Kong horse races, fireworks called off amid protest threat”, in Timothy Heritage, editor, Reuters‎^[3], archived from the original on 18 May 2025:

     Happy Valley, nestled in the hills of Hong Kong island, is a tightly populated, up-market residential area next to the Causeway Bay shopping district. There has been a horse-racing track there since just after British colonial rule began in the mid-1800s.

   • 2021 March 28, Rhea Mogul, “Hong Kong volunteers turn out to restore Happy Valley’s historic Hindu cemetery”, in Hong Kong Free Press‎^[4], archived from the original on 28 March 2021, Hong Kong:

     For decades, the Hindu cemetery in Happy Valley, tucked behind the community’s large temple on Wong Nai Chung Road, had fallen into disrepair.

2. A barangay of Tambulig, Zamboanga del Sur, Philippines.
3. Synonym of Kashmir Valley
   • 1817, Thomas Moore, “L'envoi”, in Lalla Rookh […] ‎^[5], London: Longman […] , page 341:

     Though a night of more wakeful and anxious thought had never been passed in the Happy Valley, yet, when she rose in the morning and her Ladies came round her, to assist in the adjustment of the bridal ornaments, they thought they had never seen her look half so beautiful.

   • 1879, William Wakefield, The Happy Valley: Sketches of Kashmir & the Kashmiris, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, page 2:

     It is however to the northernmost portion of this immense mountain range that I wish more particularly to draw the attention of my readers; for here, beyond the rugged ridges that skirt the Punjab, whose snow-clad peaks are discernible by the traveller long before his arrival at their base, lies the country we are about to visit—the far-famed Vale of Kashmir, the ‘Happy Valley,’ the scene of the poet Moore’s inimitable Lalla Rookh.

   • 1964, Lora Bryning Redford, Nathan Goldstein, “About the book”, in Getting to know the northern Himalayas: Kashmir, Tibet, Assam, New York: Coward-McCann:

     In between, we travel on a luxurious houseboat in “Happy Valley,” the famed Vale of Kashmir, as well as visit the “Chang Thang,” the desolate plains of Tibet, sometimes called “the roof of the world.”

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