Caldecott Hill is a private housing estate, located along Thomson Road

Thomson Road

Thomson Road can refer to either:*Thomson Road, Singapore*Thomson Road, Hong Kong...

 in the Central Region

Central Region, Singapore

The Central Region of Singapore is one of the five regions in the city-state. Comprising 13,150 hectares of land area, it includes 11 Planning Areas within the Central Area which is the immediate vicinity of the Singapore's central business district, as well as another 11 more outside it.Although...

 of Singapore. It is synonymous to the growth of the media industry 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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In the 1930s, the first broadcasting station by the British Malayan Broadcasting Corp was set up on Caldecott hill. Singapore's main broadcaster, MediaCorp

MediaCorp

Media Corporation of Singapore, better known as MediaCorp, is a group of commercial media companies in Singapore, with business interests in television and radio broadcasting, interactive media, and, to a lesser extent, print publishing and film-making....

 is currently located in this area.

It is served by Caldecott MRT Station on the Circle MRT Line

Circle MRT Line

The Circle Line is Singapore's fourth Mass Rapid Transit line, operated by SMRT Corporation. This underground line is currently long with 28 stations and is fully automatically operated...

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Etymology

Caldecott Hill is named after Sir Andrew Caldecott

Andrew Caldecott

Sir Andrew Caldecott, GCMG, KBE was a British colonial administrator.-Early Life, Education:Sir Andrew Caldecott was born on 26 October 1884 in Kent, England. His father was a cleric...

, a British colonial administrator. He was a lifelong civil servant in the Malayan Civil Service.