Happy Valley

Proper noun

Happy Valley

1. A residential area of Wan Chai district, Hong Kong.
   • 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...
   • 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.2001 April 1, Katherine Ashenburg, “In Hong Kong, the Heart Grows Fonder”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 May 2015, Travel
2. a barangay of Dinalupihan, Bataan, Philippines.
3. A barangay of Tambulig, Zamboanga del Sur, Philippines.
4. Synonym of Kashmir Valley
   • 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.1817, Thomas Moore, “L'envoi”, in Lalla Rookh […] , London: Longman […] , page 341
   • 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...1879, William Wakefield, The Happy Valley: Sketches of Kashmir & the Kashmiris, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, page 2

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   Kashmir Valley

5. A town in the Rural City of Swan Hill, north western Victoria, Australia