Chai Wan Kok () is an area in

Tsuen Wan Tsuen Wan (formerly also spelled Tsun Wan) is a town built on a bay in the western New Territories of Hong Kong, opposite of Tsing Yi Island across Rambler Channel. The market town of Tsuen Wan emerged from the surrounding villages and flee ...

Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China ( abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delt ...

. It is located at the west end of Tsuen Wan Town. While its southeast is industrial area, its hilly northeast and coastal southwest are residential. It is on the main access between

Tuen Mun Tuen Mun or Castle Peak is an area near the mouth of Tuen Mun River and Castle Peak Bay in the New Territories, Hong Kong. It was one of the earliest settlements in what is now Hong Kong and can be dated to the Neolithic period. In the more re ...

and Tsuen Wan. According to the book Hong Kong monuments (), published in 1991 by Hong Kong regional council, there were antiques traced back to around five thousand years, there were also antiques traced back to

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and

Eastern Han dynasty The Han dynasty (, ; ) was an imperial dynasty of China (202 BC – 9 AD, 25–220 AD), established by Liu Bang (Emperor Gao) and ruled by the House of Liu. The dynasty was preceded by the short-lived Qin dynasty (221–207 BC) and a warr ...

Industry

Between southeast seafront and

Castle Peak Road Castle Peak Road is the longest road in Hong Kong. Completed in 1920, it runs in the approximate shape of an arc of a semi-circle. It runs West from Tai Po Road in Sham Shui Po, New Kowloon, to Tuen Mun, then north to Yuen Long then east to Sh ...

are the industrial area, the major textile factories had chosen the area for their business. As the economy of Hong Kong shifting to

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, some factory building are transformed into offices. The headquarters of I-CABLE, a major

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and

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in Hong Kong, is sited in the area. Due to the industries along the waterfront, there is a high amount of copper pollution among the species living in the region.

Residential

The hilly northeast sited some early Hong Kong

private housing estate A housing estate (or sometimes housing complex or housing development) is a group of homes and other buildings built together as a single development. The exact form may vary from country to country. Popular throughout the United States a ...

Allway Gardens Allway Gardens () is the earliest and one of the largest-scale private housing estates located in Tsuen Wan, New Territories, Hong Kong. It was developed by Hopewell Holdings. It is located on Tsuen King Circuit, a hilltop at the west of Tsuen ...

and

Tsuen King Garden Tsuen King Garden () is one of the largest private housing estates in Tsuen Wan, New Territories, Hong Kong, located at Tsuen King Circuit. It comprises 12 high-rise buildings into 2 phases which were completed between 1987 and 1988, and was dev ...

. The southwest coast is also residential and major private housing estate includes

Belvedere Garden Belvedere Garden () is one of the largest-scale private housing estates in Tsuen Wan, New Territories, Hong Kong, located at the seaside of Tsuen Wan West. Developed by Cheung Kong Holdings, it comprises 6,016 flats in 19 high rise resident ...

Transport

Historically

Yuen Tsuen Ancient Trail Yuen Tsuen Ancient Trail (), also known as Yuen Tsuen Traditional Footpath, is a trail linking Yuen Long and Tsuen Wan in the New Territories of Hong Kong. The trail was the major trail for travelling between two major towns for villages trading t ...

, a hilly path connecting Tsuen Wan and

Yuen Long Yuen Long is a town in the western New Territories, Hong Kong. To its west lie Hung Shui Kiu (), Tin Shui Wai, Lau Fau Shan and Ha Tsuen, to the south Shap Pat Heung and Tai Tong, to the east Au Tau and Kam Tin (), and to the north Nam Sang W ...

, was once a major access between two areas. The trail remains good for hiking and Chai Wan Kok is the start on the Tsuen Wan end. The area is the transportation

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of several major roads connecting Tsuen Wan and

Tuen Mun Road Tuen Mun Road is a major expressway in Hong Kong which connects Tuen Mun with Tsuen Wan, within the New Territories. It is part of Hong Kong's Route 9, which circumnavigates the New Territories. Opened in 1978, it was once the major trunk rout ...

and

Tsuen Wan Road Tsuen Wan Road is a major expressway in Tsuen Wan District, Tsuen Wan and Kwai Tsing District, Kwai Tsing districts, New Territories, Hong Kong. It forms part of Route 5 (Hong Kong), Route 5 of Hong Kong's Hong Kong Strategic Route and Exit Numbe ...

joins in the area. The former location of

Tsuen Wan Pier Tsuen Wan Pier, Tsuen Wan Ferry or Tsuen Wan Ferry Pier is a public pier at the south of Tsuen Wan, New Territories, Hong Kong, which is adjacent to the MTR Tsuen Wan West station. It provided ferry service to Central via Tsing Yi, but the serv ...

is now the

Tsuen Wan West station Tsuen Wan West is an underground MTR station in Tsuen Wan, New Territories, Hong Kong. It is located between and stations on the . There is an emergency platform on the southern side of the station. There is a large bus and minibus interch ...

on the

Tuen Ma line The Tuen Ma line () is a rapid transit line that forms part of the Mass Transit Railway (MTR) system in Hong Kong. Coloured brown on the map, the Tuen Ma line is in length, making it the longest line of the MTR network. It has a total of ...

, the MTR station closest to the Chai Wan Kok area.

Education

Chai Wan Kok is in Primary One Admission (POA) School Net 62, which includes schools in Tsuen Wan and areas nearby. The net includes multiple aided schools and one government school, Hoi Pa Street Government Primary School.

References

{{reflist Areas of Hong Kong Tsuen Wan District

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