traditional Chinese: 八鄉; simplified Chinese: 八乡; pinyin: Bāxiāng; Jyutping: Baat3 hoeng1; Cantonese Yale: Baat hēung; literally: eight rural townships
Pat Heung is an area in the middle of New Territories, Hong Kong. Located at the east of Kam Tin and north of Shek Kong, it is the exit to Sheung Shui and Fanling. Administratively, it belongs to Yuen Long District.
Villages
Pat Heung comprises 30 villages. The population is estimated to be about three thousand people.
- Tsat Sing Kong (traditional Chinese: 七星崗)
- Ha Che (traditional Chinese: 下輋)
- Sheung Tsuen (traditional Chinese: 上村)
- Sheung Che (traditional Chinese: 上輋)
- Tai Kong Po (traditional Chinese: 大江埔)*
- Tai Wo (traditional Chinese: 大窩)
- Yuen Kong (traditional Chinese: 元崗)
- Yuen Kong San Tsuen (traditional Chinese: 元崗新村)
- Shui Lau Tin (traditional Chinese: 水流田)
- Shui Tsan Tin (traditional Chinese: 水盞田)
- Ngau Keng (traditional Chinese: 牛徑)
- Ta Shek Wu (traditional Chinese: 打石湖)
- Tin Sam (traditional Chinese: 田心)
- Kap Lung (traditional Chinese: 甲龍)
- Shek Wu Tong (traditional Chinese: 石湖塘)
- Chuk Hang (traditional Chinese: 竹坑)
- Ng Ka Tsuen (traditional Chinese: 吳家村)*
- Ho Pui (traditional Chinese: 河背)
- Kam Tsin Wai (traditional Chinese: 金錢圍)
- Cheung Kong Tsuen (traditional Chinese: 長江)
- Cheung Po (traditional Chinese: 長埔)
- Ma On Kong (traditional Chinese: 馬鞍崗)
- Pang Ka Tsuen (traditional Chinese: 彭家村)*
- Lui Kung Tin (traditional Chinese: 雷公田)*
- Lin Fa Tei (traditional Chinese: 蓮花地)
- Wang Toi Shan Ha San Uk (traditional Chinese: 橫台山下新屋)
- Wang Toi Shan Wing Ning Lei (traditional Chinese: 橫台山永寧里)
- Wang Toi Shan Ho Lik Pui (traditional Chinese: 橫台山河瀝背)
- Wang Toi Shan Shan Tsuen (traditional Chinese: 橫台山散村)
- Wang Toi Shan Lo Uk Tsuen (traditional Chinese: 橫台山羅屋村)
*=非原居民村
Features
Two historic buildings in Pat Heung have been declared as monuments: Leung Ancestral Hall in Yuen Kong Tsuen and Chik Kwai Study Hall, Sheung Tsuen.
Transport
The area is where Kam Sheung Road, Kam Tin Road, Lam Kam Road, Route Twisk and Fan Kam Road join. The Kam Sheung Road station serves Pat Heung and the nearby Kam Tin area.
Buses 251B, 64K, 77K, 54 run through Pat Heung area.
Education
Pat Heung is in Primary One Admission (POA) School Net 74. Within the school net are multiple aided schools (operated independently but funded with government money) and one government school: Yuen Long Government Primary School (元朗官立小學).[1]
See also
References
- ^ "POA School Net 74". Education Bureau. Retrieved 2022-10-09.