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

Further reading

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

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Sheung Tsuen (Pat Heung).

• 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

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

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