Kingswood Villas
Kingswood Villas () is a private housing estate in Tin Shui Wai, New Territories, Hong Kong. It has a total of 58 residential blocks and 15,808 units in six phases. It is the first private housing estate in Tin Shui Wai and one of the largest private housing estates in Hong Kong. It was developed by Cheung Kong Holdings from 1991 to 1999. Phases *Phase 1: Locwood Court () *Phase 2: Sherwood Court () *Phase 3: Chestwood Court () *Phase 4: Kingswood Ginza () *Phase 5: Lynwood Court () *Phase 6: Maywood Court () *Phase 7: Kenswood Court () File:HK Kingswood Villas Locwood Court.jpg, Phase 1 (Locwood Court) File:Kingswood Villas Sherwood Court.jpg, Phase 2 (Sherwood Court) File:HK Kingswood ChestwoodCourt.jpg, Phase 3 (Chestwood Court) File:HK Kingswood Ginza.jpg, Phase 4 (Kingswood Ginza) File:HK Kingswood LynwoodCourtView1.jpg, Phase 5 (Lynwood Court) File:HK Kingswood Maywood Court.jpg, Phase 6 (Maywood Court) File:HK Kingswood Villas KenswoodCourt.jpg, Phase 7 (Kenswood Cour ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Locwood Stop
Locwood () is an MTR stop. It is located at ground level at Tin Shui Road, between Locwood Court and Sherwood Court of Kingswood Villas, in Tin Shui Wai, Yuen Long District Yuen Long District (formerly romanised as Un Long) is one of the districts of Hong Kong. Located in the northwest of the New Territories, it had a population of 662,000 in 2021 Geography Yuen Long District contains the largest alluvial pla .... It began service on 10 January 1993 and belongs to Zone 4. History The stop was planned to be named "Kingswood" () before Light Rail Tin Shui Wai Branch started operations in 1993. However, to consider other stops in individual areas of Kingswood Villas afterwards, its name was finalized to "Locwood" when Tin Shui Wai Branch operated. References MTR Light Rail stops Former Kowloon–Canton Railway stations Tin Shui Wai Railway stations in Hong Kong opened in 1993 MTR Light Rail stops named from housing estates {{MTR-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Private Housing Estates In Hong Kong
Private housing estate is a term used in Hong Kong for private mass housing – a housing estate developed by a private developer, as opposed to a public housing estate built by the Hong Kong Housing Authority or the Hong Kong Housing Society. It usually is characterised with a cluster of high-rise buildings, with its own market or shopping mall. Mei Foo Sun Chuen, built by Mobil, is the earliest (1965) and largest by number of blocks (99). Early real estate development in Hong Kong followed the urban street pattern: single blocks are packed along streets and most of them are managed independently, with quality varying from block to block. Private housing estates on the other hand provide integrated management throughout whole estate, attracting more affluent residents. Mei Foo Sun Chuen, Taikoo Shing, Whampoa Garden and City One Shatin are early notable examples. More projects followed and the idea became widely accepted as the middle class of Hong Kong emerged. Trends ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Kwoon Chung Motors
A kwoon () is a training hall for Chinese martial arts. According to ''A Chinese-English Dictionary (Revised Edition) 1978'', from Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press (PRC), the word ''guǎn'' can also mean 1) Accommodation for guests; 2) Embassy, legation or consulate; 3) (Of service trades) shop; 4) A place for cultural activities; 5) (Archaic) An old-style private school The website MDBG English to Chinese Dictionary also defines the word ''guǎn'' as meaning building, shop, service establishment, embassy or consulate, and also includes school as an old meaning for the word.MDBG English to Chinese Dictionary: ''guǎn'': https://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php?wdqr=%E9%A4%A8%7C%E9%A6%86%5Bguan3%5D&wdrst=0 In Cantonese, the term ''kwoon'' is used when referring to: * Police Stations - Chaai Kwoon () * Mahjong Houses - Ma Jeuk Kwoon () * Kung Fu Studios - Gung Fu Kwoon () * Guild Halls - Wui Kwoon () See also * Sifu * Dojo A is a hall or place for i ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Citybus (Hong Kong)
Citybus Limited () is a bus A bus (contracted from omnibus, with variants multibus, motorbus, autobus, etc.) is a road vehicle that carries significantly more passengers than an average car or van. It is most commonly used in public transport, but is also in use for cha ... company which provides both franchised and non-franchised service in Hong Kong. The franchised route network serves Hong Kong Island, cross-Victoria Harbour, harbour routes (between Hong Kong Island and Kowloon/New Territories), North Lantau (Tung Chung and Hong Kong Disneyland), Hong Kong International Airport, Kowloon, New Territories, Shenzhen Bay Port and Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macau Bridge Hong Kong Port. The non-franchised routes serve mainly City One Sha Tin. It also provides bus rental services and staff bus services for some large companies such as TVB and China Light and Power. From 1984 to 2001 the company offered a cross-border service between Hong Kong and Mainland China using mainly Leyla ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Bus Routes
A bus (contracted from omnibus, with variants multibus, motorbus, autobus, etc.) is a road vehicle that carries significantly more passengers than an average car or van. It is most commonly used in public transport, but is also in use for charter purposes, or through private ownership. Although the average bus carries between 30 and 100 passengers, some buses have a capacity of up to 300 passengers. The most common type is the single-deck rigid bus, with double-decker and articulated buses carrying larger loads, and midibuses and minibuses carrying smaller loads. Coaches are used for longer-distance services. Many types of buses, such as city transit buses and inter-city coaches, charge a fare. Other types, such as elementary or secondary school buses or shuttle buses within a post-secondary education campus, are free. In many jurisdictions, bus drivers require a special large vehicle licence above and beyond a regular driving licence. Buses may be used for scheduled ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ginza Stop
Ginza () is an MTR Light Rail stop. It is located at ground level in the centre of Tin Shing Road in Tin Shui Wai, Yuen Long District. It began service on 7 December 2003 and belongs to Zone 4. It is the only station on the MTR network with a Japanese name, and it is one of the two Light Rail stops with announcements in Mandarin Chinese. The stop is near +WOO (Formerly Kingswood Ginza, which gave the name of this stop) and Kingswood Villas Kingswood Villas () is a private housing estate in Tin Shui Wai, New Territories, Hong Kong. It has a total of 58 residential blocks and 15,808 units in six phases. It is the first private housing estate in Tin Shui Wai and one of the largest p ... Phase 4. References MTR Light Rail stops Former Kowloon–Canton Railway stations Tin Shui Wai Railway stations in Hong Kong opened in 2003 MTR Light Rail stops named from housing estates {{MTR-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Tin Wing Stop
Tin Wing () is an MTR Light Rail stop. It is located at ground level beside Tin Shing Road in Tin Shui Wai Town Centre, Yuen Long District. It began service on 26 March 1995 and belongs to Zone 4. History The stop was originally named Tin Shui Wai Terminus (). To avoid confusion with the new Tin Shui Wai station () on the KCRC West Rail (now MTR West Rail line), which has a light rail station of the same name, its name was changed to Tin Wing. The change came into effect on 1 August 2003. On 7 December 2003, two extensions of the light rail network in Tin Shui Wai came into service, namely the Tin Shui Wai Phase 4 Extension and Tin Shui Wai Reserve Zone Extension, two weeks before the opening of the new West Rail commuter line. This transformed Tin Wing from the terminus of the line into an intermediate station. At the same time, the 720 (Tin Wing–Yau Oi) and 721 (Tin Wing–Yuen Long Terminus) routes were replaced with routes 751 (Tin Yat–Yau Oi) and 761 (Tin Wing–Yuen ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Chestwood Stop
Chestwood () is an MTR Light Rail stop. It is located at ground level at the centre of Tin Wing Road, between Chestwood Court, Kingswood Villas Phase III, and Tin Chung Court, in Tin Shui Wai, Yuen Long District Yuen Long District (formerly romanised as Un Long) is one of the districts of Hong Kong. Located in the northwest of the New Territories, it had a population of 662,000 in 2021 Geography Yuen Long District contains the largest alluvial pla .... It began service on 26 March 1995 and belongs to Zone 4. References MTR Light Rail stops Former Kowloon–Canton Railway stations Tin Shui Wai Railway stations in Hong Kong opened in 1995 MTR Light Rail stops named from housing estates 1995 establishments in Hong Kong {{MTR-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Light Rail (MTR)
The Light Rail, also known as the Light Rail Transit (LRT), officially the North-West Railway, is a light rail system in Hong Kong, serving the northwestern New Territories, within Tuen Mun District and Yuen Long District. The system operates over Track gauge, gauge track, using 750 Volt, V Direct current, DC Overhead line, overhead power supply. It was once one of four systems comprising the Kowloon–Canton Railway, KCR network in Hong Kong, before the MTR–KCR merger in 2007. It has a daily ridership of about 483,000 people. History Planning and commencement When Tuen Mun was developed in the 1970s, the Government of Hong Kong, Hong Kong government set aside space for the laying of rail tracks. There was uncertainty however as to which company would be chosen to build the railway. In 1982, Hong Kong Tramways showed interest in building the system and running aerial tramway, double-decker trams on it, before abandoning the project after negotiations over land premiu ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Kingswood Villas
Kingswood Villas () is a private housing estate in Tin Shui Wai, New Territories, Hong Kong. It has a total of 58 residential blocks and 15,808 units in six phases. It is the first private housing estate in Tin Shui Wai and one of the largest private housing estates in Hong Kong. It was developed by Cheung Kong Holdings from 1991 to 1999. Phases *Phase 1: Locwood Court () *Phase 2: Sherwood Court () *Phase 3: Chestwood Court () *Phase 4: Kingswood Ginza () *Phase 5: Lynwood Court () *Phase 6: Maywood Court () *Phase 7: Kenswood Court () File:HK Kingswood Villas Locwood Court.jpg, Phase 1 (Locwood Court) File:Kingswood Villas Sherwood Court.jpg, Phase 2 (Sherwood Court) File:HK Kingswood ChestwoodCourt.jpg, Phase 3 (Chestwood Court) File:HK Kingswood Ginza.jpg, Phase 4 (Kingswood Ginza) File:HK Kingswood LynwoodCourtView1.jpg, Phase 5 (Lynwood Court) File:HK Kingswood Maywood Court.jpg, Phase 6 (Maywood Court) File:HK Kingswood Villas KenswoodCourt.jpg, Phase 7 (Kenswood Cour ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Census And Statistics Department
The Census and Statistics Department (C&SD; ) is the provider of major social and economic official statistics in Hong Kong. It is also responsible for conducting Population Census and By-census in Hong Kong since 1971. Its head office is in the Wanchai Tower in Wan Chai. Antecedent The history of population censuses in Hong Kong can be traced back to the 1840s. According to early government records, the first set of census results were published in the 2nd issue of H.K. Govt. Gazette (1841 May). Regular population censuses have been taken ever since, except for the main gap between 1931 and 1961. In addition to population censuses, other statistics like number of ships entered, trade tonnage, public revenue and expenditure, death rate for European and American residents, number of schools, school attendance, number of prisoners and police strength were collected through various government departments in a scattered fashion. In 1947, a Department of Statistics was set u ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |