Kau Pui Lung Explained

Kau Pui Lung
Settlement Type:Area
Subdivision Type:Administrative Region
Subdivision Name:Hong Kong
Subdivision Type2:District
Subdivision Name2:Kowloon City

Kau Pui Lung, formerly Kau Pui Loong or Hau Pui Loong, is a valley and area between Ma Tau Wai and To Kwa Wan, and west of Ma Tau Chung in Kowloon of Hong Kong. The area now full of schools near the junction of Kau Pui Lung Road and Tin Kwong Road, as well as along Farm Road, where Heep Yunn School is located.

The Kau Pui Lung Road area is the site of renovation efforts by the Kowloon City Project.[1]

History

The valley once hosted a village and a river ran to Ma Tau Kok and emptied into Kowloon Bay. The valley was mainly cultivated areas.

There was a cemetery, Hau Pui Loong Cemetery, of 19acres in the area. Part of it was a Plague Trench (Chinese: 疫症墳場) for the bodies of those killed by the bubonic plague between 1894 and 1901. Established in 1913, the cemetery was finally removed in 1948.[2]

New Asia College, one of three founding colleges of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, was located near Tin Kwong Road and Farm Road. After the college moved to Ma Liu Shui, Sha Tin, New Asia Middle School was founded at the former campus.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Hong Kong's Urban Renewal Authority Defends Compensation . Rachel . Yeo . 8 August 2021.
  2. A Review of Development of Cemeteries in Hong Kong 1841-1950 . Ko Tim-Keung . Journal of the Roayal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch . 41 . 250-253.