Tin Ha Wan Village () is a village in the

Hang Hau Hang Hau () is a residential area in Tseung Kwan O, Sai Kung, New Territories, Hong Kong. It is located at the eastern edge of the Tseung Kwan O New Town. Most of the land was reclaimed from Hang Hau Village and Shui Bin Village (). His ...

area of

Sai Kung District Sai Kung District is one of the districts of Hong Kong, 18 districts of Hong Kong. The district comprises the southern half of the Sai Kung Peninsula, the Clear Water Bay Peninsula in the New Territories and a strip of land to the east of Ko ...

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 ...

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 ...

Administration

Tin Ha Wan Village is a recognized village 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 current Tin Ha Wan Village is a resite village that was relocated together with the nearby Fat Tau Chau Village in the early 1990s. The historical location of Tin Ha Wan was in a bay near

Fat Tong Chau Fat Tong Chau (), also known as Junk Island in English, and formerly called Fat Tau Chau () or Fu Tau Chau (), is a former Islands and peninsulas of Hong Kong, island of Hong Kong. It is now part of Tseung Kwan O (also called Junk Bay) and Cle ...

. It comprised two settlements, Sheung Lau Wan and Ha Lau Wan, and had a population of 96 in 1955.

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Delineation of area of existing village Tin Ha Wan (Hang Hau) for election of resident representative (2019 to 2022)
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Antiquities Advisory Board The Antiquities Advisory Board (AAB) is a statutory body of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region with the responsibility of advising the Secretary for Development, Antiquities Authority on any matters relating to antiquities and monum ...

. Historic Building Appraisal
Tin Hau Temple, Hang HauPictures
Villages in Sai Kung District, Hong Kong Hang Hau {{NewTerritories-geo-stub

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