THE STORY OF HAVELOCK TOWN – Richard Boyle Explore Sri Lanka January 2013 – Havelock Town: From rubber plantation to distinctive suburb Bambalapitiya Road (Havelock Road from 1907) dissecting Havelock Town and Park  It may be unusual to find a town within a city – unless it’s a Chinatown – but as far as Colombo is concerned, before the creation of Havelock Town and the adjacent Havelock Park in the early years of the 20th Century, this land was outside the residential area, in fact a rubber plantation that formerly cultivated cinnamon, which stretched westwards to Galle Road. >>>> >>>> Havelock Town and Havelock Park were named by the Colombo Municipal Council (CMC) to honour Sir Arthur Havelock who, after a distinguished colonial career in which he governed Sierra Leone, Trinidad, and Natal, was appointed Governor of Ceylon from 1890-1895. Havelock is best-known for abolishing the ‘paddy ...

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