List of roads in Ipoh

This is a list of main roads and streets in Ipoh — the capital of the Perak state of Malaysia.

Like many city streets in Malaysia and Singapore, these were named after British colonial officers or adjacent landmarks in English.

It grew up at the point on the river at which it ceased to be navigable and the landing stage was by an old upas tree from which the town took its name.

The only two roads initially in the area were the cart tracks linking the mines to the landing stages.

A wooden bridge was built across the Kinta river on the road to Gopeng which became Hugh Low Street.

[1] Plots of land had been sold to the Chinese by the local land-owning aristocrat, the Dato Panglima Kinta, Mohamed Jusuf, who had laid them out with broad, straight streets but the rapid development had been disorderly so that the main road to Gopeng varied in width from 20 to 70 feet.

There was then a great fire on 1 June 1892, which destroyed much of the town's wooden buildings which had attap palm thatch roofs.

Hume, who straightened the road network, redrew the land boundaries and issued new title deeds.

The streets were now 50–60 feet wide, brick drains were laid and shade trees planted.

A few weeks after I was admitted into the Anglo-Chinese school, which was then behind the present site of the Labour and Land Office (1950).

Hugh Low Street extended as far as the Ipoh Hospital in front of the railway station in the west and Tambun and Gopeng Roads in the east.

By the side of Club Road, where the bus station now lies, was the railway goods shed.

The high ground where the Anglo-Chinese School main building stands was a Malay kampong.