Shek Chung Au

Shek Chung Au (Chinese: 石涌凹) is a village in the Sha Tau Kok area of North District of Hong Kong.[1]

Map of the former Sha Tau Kok Railway showing the location of Shek Chung Au Station.
Sha Tau Kok Clinic along Sha Tau Kok Road at Shek Chung Au.

Administration

Shek Chung Au is a recognised village under the New Territories Small House Policy.[2] 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.[3][4]

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.[5]

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.[6] Shek Chung Au Station (石涌凹站) remained as one of the five stations of the line.[7]

On 15 February 2012, areas around Sha Tau Kok (but not the town itself), as well as Mai Po, were taken out of the Frontier Closed Area, opening up 740 hectares (1,800 acres) of land for public access.[8] A checkpoint on the original perimeter, operated by the Police and the Customs and Excise Department at Shek Chung Au, was officially decommissioned on 14 February 2012, and its functions taken over by a new checkpoint outside of Sha Tau Kok.[9]

See also

References
  1. Office of the Communications Authority. Subsidy Scheme to Extend Fibre-based Networks to Villages in Remote Areas
  2. "List of Recognized Villages under the New Territories Small House Policy" (PDF). Lands Department. September 2009.
  3. "Recommended District Council Constituency Areas (North District)" (PDF). Electoral Affairs Commission. Retrieved 19 October 2021.
  4. "North District Council - North DC Members". District Council. Retrieved 19 October 2021.
  5. Hase, Patrick (1993). "Eastern Peace: Sha Tau Kok Market in 1925" (PDF). Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch. 33: 165. ISSN 1991-7295.
  6. Hase, Patrick (1996). "Traditional Life in the New Territories: The Evidence of the 1911 and 1921 Censuses" (PDF). Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch. 36: 85. ISSN 1991-7295.
  7. "日軍碉堡值得觀賞". Oriental Daily News (in Chinese). 16 February 2012.
  8. 邊境禁區範圍縮減首階段生效
  9. "First stage of reduction of Frontier Closed Area implemented". Hong Kong Government Information Centre. 15 February 2012.
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