Sha Tau Kok Road

picture info	Sha Tau Kok Road Sha Tau Kok Road () is a road connecting Sha Tau Kok and Fanling in the New Territories, Hong Kong. History Sha Tau Kok Road is the only road access to Sha Tau Kok from Hong Kong since its construction in 1927. The road replaced Sha Tau Kok Railway as the connection between those areas. See also * List of streets and roads in Hong Kong * Shek Chung Au Shek Chung Au () is a village in the Sha Tau Kok area of North District of Hong Kong. Administration Shek Chung Au is a recognized village under the New Territories Small House Policy. It is one of the villages represented within the Sha Tau Kok ... Sha Tau Kok Fanling Roads in the New Territories {{HongKong-road-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Sha Tau Kok Sha Tau Kok is a closed city, closed town in Hong Kong. The last remaining major settlement in the Frontier Closed Area, it is Hong Kong's northernmost town. Geography The small rural village of Sha Tau Kok is located on the northern shoreline of Starling Inlet, 10 km north-east of Fan Ling, Fanling. The town centre is by the sea and the northern part of the town encompasses the hill known as Yuen Tuen Shan (). A section of Starling Inlet located offshore of Sha Tau Kok is one of the Agriculture and aquaculture in Hong Kong, 26 designated marine Fish farming, fish culture zones in Hong Kong. History At the time of the 1911 census, the population of Sha Tau Kok was 14. In 2022, a pilot scheme was announced, where limited areas of the town were opened to tourists. The Town Sha Tau Kok on the Hong Kong side of the border is a rural town, part of North District, Hong Kong, North District lies within the Frontier Closed Area. It has a post office, a bank, a few sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Fanling Fanling ( zh, t=粉嶺; also spelled Fan Ling or Fan Leng) is a town in the New Territories East of Hong Kong. Administratively, it is part of the North District. Fanling Town is the main settlement of the Fanling area. The name Fanling is a shortened form of Fan Pik Leng (). The area has several public and private estates. Northwest of Fanling is Sheung Shui and southeast is Tai Po. Areas Part of Fanling–Sheung Shui New Town, Fanling Town includes Luen Wo Hui (), the marketplace of Fanling before urban development in the area, and Wo Hop Shek (), where an uphill public cemetery is located. Fanling North is one of three new development areas currently being planned for North District, in parallel with Ta Kwu Ling and Kwu Tung North. Sights * Fanling Wai (), a walled village. * Fung Ying Seen Koon (), a Taoist temple. * Lung Yeuk Tau Heritage Trail * Tao Heung Foods of Mankind Museum (relocated to Fo Tan in 2008) Housing estates Public and private housin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	New Territories The New Territories is one of the three main regions of Hong Kong, alongside Hong Kong Island and the Kowloon Peninsula. It makes up 86.2% of Hong Kong's territory, and contains around half of the population of Hong Kong. Historically, it is the region described in the Convention for the Extension of Hong Kong Territory. According to that treaty, the territories comprise the mainland area north of Boundary Street on the Kowloon Peninsula and south of the Sham Chun River (which is the border between Hong Kong and Mainland China), as well as over 200 outlying islands, including Lantau Island, Lamma Island, Cheung Chau, and Peng Chau in the territory of HK. Later, after New Kowloon was defined from the area between the Boundary Street and the Kowloon Ranges spanned from Lai Chi Kok to Lei Yue Mun, and the extension of the urban areas of Kowloon, New Kowloon was gradually urbanised and absorbed into Kowloon. The New Territories now comprises only the mainland no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Sha Tau Kok Railway The Sha Tau Kok Railway ( Chinese: 沙頭角鐵路) was a narrow-gauge light rail operated by the Kowloon–Canton Railway Corporation, running from Fanling to Sha Tau Kok in the northern New Territories of Hong Kong. It was long and had eight services a day. The time it took to travel from Fanling to Sha Tau Kok was 55 minutes. Background Following the opening of British Section of the Kowloon–Canton Railway (mainline, now East Rail line) in 1911, local authorities in Tai Po District Office proposed the construction of railway branch to boundary town Sha Tau Kok, which was likely to increase the revenue of mainline considering the stable movement of villagers between Sha Tau Kok Market and Sham Chun Market (now Shenzhen). The proposal was accepted by the Hong Kong Government on 28 April 1911. The branch was built reusing the narrow gauge works railway tracks and rolling stock previously used to help construct the mainline. There were also plans to extend the branch south- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	List Of Neighbourhoods Of Hong Kong The following is a list of areashttp://www.lcsd.gov.hk/CE/CulturalService/MusicOffice/download/imts18.pdf of Hong Kong. Hong Kong Island * Central and Western District Central District Admiralty Mid-Levels Soho Sai Wan *Kennedy Town Sai Ying Pun Shek Tong Tsui Sheung Wan * Eastern District Chai Wan North Point * Braemar Hill * Fortress Hill * North Point Mid-Levels Quarry Bay * Kornhill Taikoo Shing * Sai Wan Ho Shau Kei Wan * Heng Fa Chuen *Aldrich Bay A Kung Ngam Southern District Aberdeen Ap Lei Chau Chung Hom Kok Siu Sai Wan Cyberport Telegraph Bay * Deep Water Bay Pok Fu Lam * Sandy Bay Shan Ting * Wah Fu Tin Wan Repulse Bay Stanley Shek O * Big Wave Bay Tai Tam Wong Chuk Hang Nam Long Shan ** Ocean Park Wan Chai District Causeway Bay Tin Hau Caroline Hill * Happy Valley * Jardine's Lookout Tai Hang *Wan Chai Kowloon Kowloon City District Ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:** [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	List Of Streets And Roads In Hong Kong The following are incomplete lists of notable expressways, tunnels, bridges, roads, avenues, streets, crescents, squares and bazaars in Hong Kong. Many roads on the Hong Kong Island conform to the contours of the hill landscape. Some of the roads on the north side of Hong Kong Island and southern Kowloon have a grid-like pattern.https://hub.hku.hk/bitstream/10722/28458/1/FullText.pdf The roads are generally designed to British standards. Expressways generally conform to British motorway standards. Speed limits on all roads are 50 km/h (30 mph), unless indicated otherwise by road signs. Usually, higher speed limits such as 70 km/h (45 mph) and 80 km/h (50 mph) have been raised to facilitate traffic flow along main roads and trunk roads. On most expressways, speed limits have been raised to 80 km/h and 100 km/h (60 mph) due to the smooth geometry and 110 km/h (70 mph) for North Lantau Highway, while some expressways suc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Shek Chung Au Shek Chung Au () is a village in the Sha Tau Kok area of North District of Hong Kong. Administration Shek Chung Au is a recognized village under the New Territories Small House Policy. It is one of the villages represented within the Sha Tau Kok District Rural Committee. For electoral purposes, Shek Chung Au is part of the Sha Ta constituency, which is currently represented by Ko Wai-kei. Location Nearby villages include Wu Shek Kok, located southeast of Shek Chung Au, directly across Sha Tau Kok Road; Shek Kiu Tau in the southwest and Tong To in the northeast. History Shek Chung Au was historically an important traffic node, and a military post was located there during several hundred years, until the mid-19th century. In 1911, the Sha Tau Kok Railway was opened as far as Shek Chung Au. The light railway was then extended to Sha Tau Kok in 1912. Shek Chung Au Station () remained as one of the five stations of the line. On 15 February 2012, areas around Sha Tau Kok (but not ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]