Chek Keng () is an area and village of

Sai Kung North Sai Kung North refers collectively to the areas on the southern side of Tolo Harbour and the northernmost part of the Sai Kung Peninsula. Part of this broad area is served by Sai Sha Road, a motorway between Sai Kung and Ma On Shan. Geography ...

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 administratively part of

Tai Po District Tai Po District is one of the 18 districts of Hong Kong. The suburban district covers the areas of Tai Po New Town (including areas such as Tai Po Market, , Tai Po Industrial Estate, Tai Wo Estate), Tai Po Tau, Tai Po Kau, Hong Lok Yuen, Ti ...

Location

Chek Keng is located within

Sai Kung East Country Park Sai Kung East Country Park () is a country park on the Sai Kung Peninsula in Hong Kong, measuring . It opened in 1978 and has features including: * High Island Reservoir * High Island * Pak Tam Au * Sheung Yiu * Wong Shek Pier * Beaches of T ...

, on the northern coast of

Sai Kung Peninsula The Sai Kung Peninsula () is a peninsula in the easternmost part of the New Territories in Hong Kong. Its name comes from Sai Kung Town in the central southern area of the peninsula. The southern part of the peninsula is administrated by Sai ...

and facing the Chek Keng Hau () aka East Arm Bay of Long Harbour.

Administration

Chek Keng is a recognized village under the

New Territories The New Territories is one of the three main regions of Hong Kong, alongside Hong Kong Island and the Kowloon Peninsula. It makes up 86.2% of Hong Kong's territory, and contains around half of the population of Hong Kong. Historically, it ...

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 ...

Features

Chapel

The Holy Family Chapel () in Chek Keng was built in 1874 to replace an earlier chapel that had been severely damaged by a storm in 1867. The whole village later converted to Catholicism. During the

Japanese Occupation of Hong Kong The Imperial Japanese occupation of Hong Kong began when the Governor of Hong Kong, Mark Aitchison Young, Sir Mark Young, surrendered the British Crown colony of British Hong Kong, Hong Kong to the Empire of Japan on 25 December 1941. The surr ...

, the chapel was a base of the Hong Kong-Kowloon Independent Battalion of the

East River Guerrilla The East River Column or Dongjiang Column () was a unit of anti-Japanese Communist guerrillas that operated in Guangdong and Hong Kong during the Second Sino-Japanese War. They played a major role in Chinese resistance against Japanese occupation, ...

(). The chapel is listed as a Grade II historic building.

Others

* Chek Keng Pier * Bradbury Hall youth hostel

Transportation

Chek Keng is not accessible by car. It is located along the Stage 2 of the

MacLehose Trail The MacLehose Trail is a 100-kilometre hiking trail that crosses much of the New Territories, Hong Kong, starting from Pak Tam Chung, Sai Kung District in the east to Tuen Mun Town, Tuen Mun District in the west. The path is marked by distance p ...

, about an hour's walk from

Pak Tam Au Pak Tam Au () is an area within the Sai Kung East Country Park, on the Sai Kung Peninsula in the New Territories of Hong Kong. It is administratively under the Tai Po District. Village The small village at Pak Tam Au is said to have a history dat ...

. A

kai-to The kai-to, sometimes kaito or kaido () is a type of small, motorised ferry that operates in Hong Kong. They are usually used to serve remote coastal settlements in the territory's outlying islands.: "Cargo junks of the type still known as k ...

service is available between

Wong Shek Wong Shek ( Chinese: 黃石), or Wong Ma Tei ( Chinese: 黃麻地), is an area in the northern part of the Sai Kung Peninsula in Hong Kong. It is under the administration of Tai Po District. In the area, there are picnic facilities with views of the ...

Wan Tsai Wan Tsai () is a peninsula at the northern extremity of the north-western Sai Kung Peninsula, Hong Kong, with Hoi Ha Wan to its west and Long Harbour on its east. Grass Island lies east of the peninsula. Geography Joined to the mainland by a ...

(Nam Fung Wan) and Chek Keng.

Transport Department The Transport Department of the Government of Hong Kong is a department of the Hong Kong Civil Service, civil service responsible for transportation-related policy in Hong Kong. The department is under the Transport and Logistics Bureau. The Tra ...

Kaito Ferry Services
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References

External links

Delineation of area of existing village Chek Keng (Sai Kung North) for election of resident representative (2019 to 2022)

Picture of the Holy Family Chapel in Chek Keng
Villages in Tai Po District, Hong Kong Sai Kung North {{Coord, 22.421462, 114.350025, display=title