Napier Road is a road

Road

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 located within the Tanglin Planning Area

Tanglin

Tanglin is the name of an urban planning area within the Central Region in Singapore.The Tanglin Planning Area is defined by the region bounded by Bukit Timah Road to the north, Farrer Road and Queensway to the west, Kay Siang Road, Tanglin Road and a section of the Alexandra Canal to the south,...

 in Singapore

Singapore

Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...

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The road starts with its junction with Holland Road

Holland Road, Singapore

Holland Road is a long road in Singapore, running roughly east-west linking Clementi in the west to the Singapore Botanic Gardens where it joins Napier Road and then Orchard Road....

 and Cluny Road near the Singapore Botanic Gardens

Singapore Botanic Gardens

The Singapore Botanic Gardens is a 74-hectare botanical garden in Singapore. It is half the size of the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew or around one-fifth the size of Central Park in New York. It is the only botanic garden in the world that opens from 5 a.m...

 to the west, and ends at its junction with Tanglin Road and Grange Road

Grange Road

Grange Road may be:* Grange Road, Cambridge, England* Grange Road railway station, a former railway station in Tunbridge Wells, England* Grange Road, Adelaide, Australia* Grange Road, Singapore, Singapore- See also :* La Grange Road, Chicago, USA...

 to the east, near the Orchard Road

Orchard Road

Orchard Road is a road in Singapore that is the retail and entertainment hub of the city-state. It is regularly frequented by the local population as well as being a major tourist attraction...

 shopping belt.

Etymology and history

Napier Road is named after William "Royal Billy" Napier (born 1804), the first lawyer

Lawyer

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 in Singapore in 1833. He arrived in Singapore in 1831 and married George Drumgoole Coleman

George Drumgoole Coleman

George Drumgoole Coleman , also known as George Drumgold Coleman, was an Irish civil architect who played an instrumental role in the design and construction of much of the civil infrastructure in Singapore, after the island was founded by Sir Stamford Raffles in 1819.Born in Drogheda County Louth,...

's widow, Maria Frances.

Napier Road originally led to Napier's house, known as Tang Leng in Chinese

Chinese language

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, which he built in 1854. He was one of the founders of the Singapore Free Press

Singapore Free Press

The Singapore Free Press was an English language daily broadsheet newspaper based in Singapore.-History:The paper was founded as Singapore's second English language newspaper by William Napier, Edward Boustead and Walter Scott Lorrain on 1 October 1835 as the Singapore Free Press & Mercantile...

 and a shareholder

Shareholder

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 of the Raffles Library. Later he became the Lieutenant Governor of Labuan

Labuan

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 because of his friendship with Sir James Brooke

James Brooke

James, Rajah of Sarawak, KCB was the first White Rajah of Sarawak. His father, Thomas Brooke, was an English Judge Court of Appeal at Bareilly, British India; his mother, Anna Maria, born in Hertfordshire, was the illegitimate daughter of Scottish peer Colonel William Stuart, 9th Lord Blantyre,...

 (1803-1868). He retired in 1857.

Landmarks

The prominent landmarks located along Napier Road include:

• Australian High Commission
  Australian High Commission
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• British Council
  British Council
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• British High Commission
• Embassy of the United States of America
• Gleneagles Hospital and Medical Centre
  Gleneagles Hospital and Medical Centre
  Gleneagles Hospital and Medical Centre is a 380-bed private hospital, located in Napier Road, Singapore. It provides medical and surgical services....
  
  
• Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Singapore)
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• Singapore Botanic Gardens
  Singapore Botanic Gardens
  The Singapore Botanic Gardens is a 74-hectare botanical garden in Singapore. It is half the size of the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew or around one-fifth the size of Central Park in New York. It is the only botanic garden in the world that opens from 5 a.m...
  
  
• Former Tanglin Police Station
• Tanglin Post Office