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Lok Lo Ha () is a village and valley northeast of
Wo Liu Hang Wo Liu Hang () is a village in Fo Tan, Hong Kong. The place was formerly a small plain at the shore of Sha Tin Hoi. The plain to the south has been transformed into an industrial area and a village has been erected in the hilly north. On the rec ...
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Fo Tan Fo Tan () is an area of Sha Tin District, New Territories, Hong Kong. It was developed as a light industrial area, but this activity has declined markedly in recent years. There are residential areas to the east, alongside the MTR line, and in t ...
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Sha Tin District Sha Tin District is one of the 18 districts of Hong Kong. As one of the 9 districts located in the New Territories, it covers the areas of Sha Tin, Tai Wai, Ma On Shan, Fo Tan, Siu Lek Yuen, and Ma Liu Shui. The district is the most ...
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Hong Kong Hong Kong)., Legally Hong Kong, China in international treaties and organizations. is a special administrative region of China. With 7.5 million residents in a territory, Hong Kong is the fourth most densely populated region in the wor ...
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Administration

Lok Lo Ha is a recognized village under the
New Territories The New Territories (N.T., Traditional Chinese characters, Chinese: ) is one of the three areas of Hong Kong, alongside Hong Kong Island and Kowloon. It makes up 86.2% of Hong Kong's territory, and contains around half of the population of H ...
Small House Policy The Small House Policy (SHP, ) was introduced in 1972 in Hong Kong. The objective was to improve the then prevailing low standard of housing in the rural areas of the New Territories. The policy allows an indigenous male villager who is 18 ye ...
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History

Lok Lo Ha was historically a sea-shore village. A stone pier for the
sampan A sampan is a relatively flat-bottomed wooden boat found in East, Southeast, and South Asia. It is possibly of Chinese or Austronesian origin. Some sampans include a small shelter on board and may be used as a permanent habitation on in ...
ferry to
Yuen Chau Kok Yuen Chau Kok () is an List of areas of Hong Kong, area in Sha Tin District, New Territories, Hong Kong, near Sha Tin Road and Prince of Wales Hospital and is within walking distance of City One station of the MTR Tuen Ma line. The island was ...
was built at Lok Lo Ha in 1917. In 2018, a KMB bus on route 872 passed by this stop, overturning a few stops later, killing 19. It has been noted that the name of the village literally means “falling down from the road”, which coincidentally describes the bus accident.


See also

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Ho Tung Lau Ho Tung Lau (), is a former area encompassing roughly current day The Palazzo (Hong Kong), The Palazzo to northeast of Lok Lo Ha in Sha Tin, near the MTR and on the former shore of Tide Cove, Sha Tin Hoi, in the New Territories, Hong Kong. The na ...
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Kau Yeuk (Sha Tin) The Nine Alliances of Lek Yuen or Kau Yeuk () was a regional organization of various groups in Sha Tin Valley, Hong Kong. Alliances The nine groups were: * Tai Wai Yeuk (): Chik Chuen Wai () * Tin Sam Tsuen, Sha Tin District, Tin Sam Yeuk (): Tin S ...


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Delineation of area of existing village Lok Lo Ha (Sha Tin) for election of resident representative (2019 to 2022)
* Historical photographs of Lok Lo Ha
1920s1964
Villages in Sha Tin District, Hong Kong Valleys of Hong Kong Fo Tan {{NewTerritories-geo-stub