Hin Tin () is a village in the

Tai Wai Tai Wai () is an area in the New Territories, Hong Kong, located between Sha Tin and the Lion Rock, within the Sha Tin District. With three rapid transit stations, one of which an interchange station serving two lines, five bus termini and ...

area of

Sha Tin District Sha Tin District is one of the 18 districts of Hong Kong. As one of the 9 districts located in the New Territories, it covers the areas of Sha Tin, Tai Wai, Ma On Shan, Fo Tan, Siu Lek Yuen, and Ma Liu Shui. The district is the most populo ...

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 ...

Location

Hin Tin is located south of the main part of

Hin Keng Estate The following is an overview of Public housing estates in Tai Wai, Hong Kong, including Home Ownership Scheme (HOS), Private Sector Participation Scheme (PSPS), and Tenants Purchase Scheme (TPS) estates. Management is by the Hong Kong Housing Author ...

and across Hin Keng Street (). Ha Keng Hau,

Sheung Keng Hau Sheung Keng Hau () is a village in the Tai Wai area of Sha Tin District, Hong Kong. Location Ha Keng Hau (), Sheung Keng Hau and Hin Tin are three adjacent villages located along Hin Keng Street (), along a northeast–southwest direction. Hin K ...

and Hin Tin are three adjacent villages located along Hin Keng Street, along a northeast–southwest direction. Hin Keng Estate was named after them.

Administration

Hin Tin 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 ...

History

Hin Tin village was erected with government funding in the 1920s to resettle three

clans A clan is a group of people united by actual or perceived kinship and descent. Even if lineage details are unknown, clans may claim descent from founding member or apical ancestor. Clans, in indigenous societies, tend to be endogamous, meaning ...

of villagers from Shek Lei Pui Valley (), to make way for the construction of the

Shek Lei Pui Reservoir Shek Lei Pui Reservoir is a reservoir in Kam Shan Country Park, Sha Tin, New Territories, Hong Kong. It is part of the Kowloon Group of Reservoirs. The total water storage capacity is 116 million gallons. Formerly the site of Shek Lei Pui Villa ...

, completed in 1925. Some 80 people lived in 26 houses in the former Shek Lei Pui Village. The Yeung (), the Law () and the So () were

Hakkas The Hakka (), sometimes also referred to as Hakka Han, or Hakka Chinese, or Hakkas are a Han Chinese subgroup whose ancestral homes are chiefly in the Hakka-speaking provincial areas of Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangxi, Sichuan, Hunan ...

from

Nantou Nantou may refer to: * Nantou County (南投縣), a county in central Taiwan (Republic of China) * Nantou City (南投市), seat of Nantou County, Taiwan * Nantou (historical town) (南头), a historic town and former administrative center of Xin' ...

who had settled in the Valley for some 300 years. Another clan in the Valley, the

Lau Lau or LAU may refer to: People * Lau (surname) * Liu (劉/刘), a common Chinese family name transliterated Lau in Cantonese and Hokkien * Lau clan, one of the Saraswat Brahmin clans of Punjab * LAU (musician): Laura Fares Places * Lebane ...

(), moved to

Kwai Chung Kwai Chung is an urban area within Tsuen Wan New Town in the New Territories of Hong Kong. Together with Tsing Yi Island, it is part of the Kwai Tsing District District of Hong Kong. It is also part of Tsuen Wan New Town. In 2000, it had a populat ...

instead of Hin Tin at the resettlement. The villagers who chose to settle in Hin Tin did so because they saw good income opportunities from the then surrounding forest. In 1982, the

Housing Department Housing Department (房屋署) is a department of Hong Kong Government and is the executive arm of the Hong Kong Housing Authority , managing public housing estates which is a statutory organisation tasked to develop and implement a public ...

demolished 600 structures at Hin Tin and relocated 167 families.

Features

The

ancestral hall An ancestral shrine, hall or temple ( or , vi, Nhà thờ họ; Chữ Hán: 家祠户), also called lineage temple, is a temple dedicated to deified ancestors and progenitors of surname lineages or families in the Chinese tradition. Ancestra ...

s of the three clans, Yeung (), Law () and So (), are connected together to form a single block on the front row of the original three rows of houses.

Antiquities and Monuments Office The Antiquities and Monuments Office (AMO) was established in 1976 under the Antiquities and Monuments Ordinance to protect and preserve Hong Kong's historic monuments. Housed in the Former Kowloon British School, the AMO is responsible for iden ...

Brief Information on Proposed Grade 3 Items. Items #852, 853, 854.
They have been listed as Grade III historic buildings since 2010.

List of the Historic Buildings in Building Assessment
(as of 23 November 2011)

References

External links

Delineation of area of existing village Hin Tin (Sha Tin) for election of resident representative (2019 to 2022)
Villages in Sha Tin District, Hong Kong Tai Wai {{coord, 22.362394, 114.172475, display=title