Sha Tin Wai () is an area in

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 populo ...

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 ...

, Hong Kong, named after Sha Tin Wai Village ().

Name

The name of the

Sha Tin Sha Tin, also spelt Shatin, is a neighbourhood along Shing Mun River in the eastern New Territories, Hong Kong. Administratively, it is part of the Sha Tin District. Sha Tin is one of the neighbourhoods of the Sha Tin New Town project. The ...

area allegedly comes from the fact that

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officials mistook the name of Sha Tin Wai village as the name of the area.

Administration

Sha Tin Wai Village and Sha Tin Wai New Village () aka. Sha Tin Wai Resite Area, are recognized villages under the

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 ...

History

The village was established by the Tse (), Cheng () and Lam () clans from Pok Law (

Boluo County Boluo County () is a county of east-central Guangdong province, People's Republic of China. It is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Huizhou, and in 2009, had a population of 813,700 residing in an area of . It borders Yuan ...

) in the mid-17th century. Each of the clans has their own

ancestral hall An ancestral shrine, hall or temple ( or , vi, Nhà thờ họ; Chữ Hán: 家祠户), also called lineage temple, is a temple dedicated to deified ancestors and progenitors of surname lineages or families in the Chinese tradition. Ancest ...

. One of the branch of Tse relocated to nearby

Yuen Chau Kok Yuen Chau Kok () is an 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 a major station for travel ...

to establish their own village. The village was originally built on the Sha Tin Sea waterfront. As a consequence of successive land reclamation of the former estuary that started in 1905, it is now separated from the

Shing Mun River The Shing Mun River or Shing Mun River Channel is a river in Sha Tin, Hong Kong. History The original Shing Mun River began at Needle Hill, and flowed into the former Tide Cove (Sha Tin Hoi), a shallow bay. In the 1970s, Tide Cove was rec ...

Sha Kok Estate Sha Kok Estate () is a public housing estate in Sha Tin Wai, Sha Tin, New Territories, Hong Kong near Pok Hong Estate, Jat Min Chuen and Sha Tin Wai station. The estate consists of seven residential blocks completed between 1980 and 1982. The b ...

. The Estate was built in

Sha Tin New Town Sha Tin New Town, or known as Sha Tin-Ma On Shan New Town or Sha Tin Town is one of the satellite towns and new towns of Hong Kong. It is within the Sha Tin District, the New Territories. The New Town covers the neighbourhoods such as Sha Tin, T ...

-era. Houses of the traditional villages were then built in front of the initial row of houses, and as a consequence, half of today's Sha Tin Wai is built on

reclaimed land Land reclamation, usually known as reclamation, and also known as land fill (not to be confused with a waste landfill), is the process of creating new land from oceans, seas, riverbeds or lake beds. The land reclaimed is known as reclamati ...

. At the time of the 1911 census, the population of Sha Tin Wai village was 180. The number of males was 81. Sha Tin Wai village, its surrounding area, as well as area around

Sha Tin station Sha Tin station, formerly known as Sha Tin railway station ( or ) is a station on the of Hong Kong's Mass Transit Railway (MTR) system. The station is located in the town centre of Sha Tin. The station was formerly on the main line of the Kowl ...

in the opposite shore of Sha Tin Sea, were studied by

HKU The University of Hong Kong (HKU) (Chinese: 香港大學) is a public research university in Hong Kong. Founded in 1887 as the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese, it is the oldest tertiary institution in Hong Kong. HKU was also the fir ...

student in 1963 as a possible site of building Hong Kong's

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. Those area were indeed selected by the government to become part of Sha Tin New Town project, which included land reclamation of Sha Tin Sea. The modern day Shing Mun River was the residual of the Sha Tin Sea.

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Delineation of area of existing village Sha Tin Wai (Sha Tin) for election of resident representative (2019 to 2022)
{{coord, 22.377867, 114.197559, display=title Villages in Sha Tin District, Hong Kong

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