Sheung Tsuen

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Houses in the Sheung Tsuen area.
Chik Kwai Study Hall.

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.

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Chik Kwai Study Hall, a typical traditional Chinese academy and monument, is located in Sheung Tsuen.[1]

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,[2] is now located on the territory of Sheung Tsuen.

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References[]

  1. ^ "Declared Monuments in Hong Kong - New Territories". Antiquities and Monuments Office.
  2. ^ Hill, Ronald D. (1985). "Fragments and speculations: the walled villages of Hong Kong". Journal of the Hong Kong Archaeological Society. Hong Kong Archaeological Society. 11: 25-38. OCLC 02465191.

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Coordinates: 22°25′44″N 114°06′20″E / 22.4290°N 114.1056°E / 22.4290; 114.1056


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