Wong Yi Chau

Wong Yi Chau (Chinese: 黃宜洲) is a village in Tsam Chuk Wan, Sai Kung Peninsula, Hong Kong.

Sign to Wong Yi Chau.

Notice board in Wong Yi Chau.

Landscape near Hei Tsz Wan (起子灣), a former village situated across a little bay from Wong Yi Chau.

Administration

Wong Yi Chau is a recognized village under the New Territories Small House Policy.^[1]

History

Pak Tam Chung was described as consisting of six villages in 1911 with fewer than 405 inhabitants: Wong Yi Chau, Pak Tam (北潭), Sheung Yiu (上窰), Tsak Yue Wu (鯽魚湖), Wong Keng Tei (黃麖地) and Tsam Chuk Wan. The six villages were all inhabited by Hakka people, with the exception of two hamlets in Pak Tam.^[2][3]

References

1. "List of Recognized Villages under the New Territories Small House Policy" (PDF). Lands Department. September 2009.
2. Faure, David (1986). The structure of Chinese rural society: lineage and village in the eastern New Territories, Hong Kong. Oxford University Press. p. 90. ISBN 9780195839708.
3. Delang, Claudio O. (30 March 2018). "Local livelihoods and global process: complex causalities in Hong Kong's Sai Kung Peninsula". Miscellanea Geographica. 22 (1): 31–39. doi:10.2478/mgrsd-2018-0003. ISSN 2084-6118.

Further reading

• Hamilton, Eric; Schofield, Walter; Peplow, S. H.; Tsui, Paul; Coates, Austin; Hayes, James (2010). "Chapter 6. Sai Kung Peninsula". In Strickland, John (ed.). Southern District Officer Reports: Islands and Villages in Rural Hong Kong, 1910-60. Hong Kong University Press. pp. 271–272. ISBN 9789888028382.

External links

• Delineation of area of existing village Wong Yi Chau (Sai Kung) for election of resident representative (2019 to 2022) (includes Hei Tsz Wan)

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