Wong Uk Village (Sha Tin District)
{{Short description|Village in Hong Kong}}
{{for|the village in Yuen Long District|Wong Uk Tsuen (Yuen Long District)}}
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Wong Uk Village ({{zh|t=王屋村}}) is a village at the southwest of Yuen Chau Kok, Sha Tin, New Territories, Hong Kong. With the exception of the "Old House", the village was demolished in the 1970s to make way for high-density housing and re-established nearby.
Administration
Wong Uk is a recognized village under the New Territories Small House Policy.{{cite web |url=https://www.landsd.gov.hk/doc/en/small-house/rv0909.pdf |title=List of Recognized Villages under the New Territories Small House Policy |last= |first= |date=September 2009 |website= |publisher=Lands Department |access-date= |quote=}}
History
The village was founded by a couple surnamed Wong from Xingning county of Guangdong province in the 19th century. The village was a trading station for merchants and travellers until the late 19th century. But most of the old buildings in the village were ruined and demolished due to the reclamation of Tide Cove for the development of the Sha Tin New Town. In the mid-1980s, the Hong Kong Government developed the area of the Wong Uk Village into a recreational park, now called the Wong Uk Garden. The villagers moved to the end of Yuen Chau Kok Road to establish the present Wong Uk Village.{{Cite web |url=http://www.heritage.gov.hk/en/doc/rhbtp/ResourceKit_OldHouseAtWongUkVillage.pdf |title=Revitalising Historic Buildings Through Partnership Scheme - Old House at Wong Uk Village - Resource Kit |access-date=2009-11-03 |archive-date=2011-07-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720111547/http://www.heritage.gov.hk/en/doc/rhbtp/ResourceKit_OldHouseAtWongUkVillage.pdf |url-status=dead }} A new Wong Clan ancestral hall was built there in 1994.East Rail Extensions - Tai Wai to Ma On Shan. Environmental Impact Assessment Report. [http://www.epd.gov.hk/eia/register/report/eiareport/eia_02799/09.pdf Archaeological and Cultural Resources], 1999
Old House
The "Old House" is the only remnant of the original Wong Uk Village. It is a two-storey green-brick structure building about 100 years old, which was declared a monument[http://www.lcsd.gov.hk/CE/Museum/Monument/en/monuments_39.php Antiquities and Monuments office: Old House, Wong Uk Village] in 1989. In 2009, the Old House was part of the buildings of Batch II of the Hong Kong Government's Revitalising Historic Buildings Through Partnership Scheme{{Cite web |url=http://www.heritage.gov.hk/en/rhbtp/buildings2.htm |title=Conserve and Revitalise Hong Kong Heritage: Batch II of Revitalisation Scheme |access-date=2009-11-03 |archive-date=2021-06-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210609213218/http://www.heritage.gov.hk/en/rhbtp/buildings2.htm |url-status=dead }} seeking adaptive reuse of government-owned historic buildings.
References
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External links
{{Commons category|Wong Uk Village}}
- [https://www.had.gov.hk/rre/images/village_map1922/R/r-st-10.pdf Delineation of area of existing village Wong Uk (Sha Tin) for election of resident representative (2019 to 2022)]
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