Sheung Tsuen

Houses in the Sheung Tsuen area.

Sheung Tsuen Village Office.

Chik Kwai Study Hall.

Pat Heung Temple in Sheung Tsuen.

Sheung Tsuen (Chinese: 上村) is a village in the Pat Heung area of Yuen Long located along Route Twisk and Kam Sheung Road in the New Territories, Hong Kong.

Administration

Sheung Tsuen is a recognized village under the New Territories Small House Policy.^[1]

Features

Chik Kwai Study Hall [zh], a typical traditional Chinese academy and monument, is located in Sheung Tsuen.^[2] It is a declared monument.

Shek Tau Wai (石頭圍), a multiple clan village founded several hundred years ago, which appears on the "Map of the San-On District", published in 1866 by Simeone Volonteri,^[3] is now located on the territory of Sheung Tsuen.

See also

• Six-Day War (1899)

References

1. "List of Recognized Villages under the New Territories Small House Policy" (PDF). Lands Department. September 2009.
2. "Declared Monuments in Hong Kong - New Territories". Antiquities and Monuments Office.
3. Hill, Ronald D. (1985). "Fragments and speculations: the walled villages of Hong Kong". Journal of the Hong Kong Archaeological Society. 11. Hong Kong Archaeological Society: 25-38. OCLC 02465191.

Further reading

• "Consultancy for Conservation Study of Chik Kwai Study Hall at Pat Heung" (PDF). Antiquities and Monuments Office. January 2008.

External links

• Delineation of area of existing village Sheung Tsuen (Pat Heung) for election of resident representative (2019 to 2022)
• Antiquities Advisory Board. Historic Building Appraisal. Pat Heung Temple, No. 87 Sheung Tsuen, Pat Heung Pictures
• Antiquities Advisory Board. Historic Building Appraisal. Lai Ancestral Hall, No. 146 Tsz Tong Tsuen, Sheung Tsuen, Pat Heung Pictures

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