Kau Pui Lung (), formerly Kau Pui Loong or Hau Pui Loong, is a valley and an area between
Ma Tau Wai and
To Kwa Wan, and west of
Ma Tau Chung in
Kowloon
Kowloon () is an urban area in Hong Kong comprising the Kowloon Peninsula and New Kowloon. With a population of 2,019,533 and a population density of in 2006, it is the most populous area in Hong Kong, compared with Hong Kong Island and t ...
of Hong Kong. The area now full of schools near the junction of
Kau Pui Lung Road
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and
Tin Kwong Road, as well as along Farm Road, where Heep Yunn School is located.
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 in the area. Part of it was a ''Plague Trench'' () for the bodies of those killed by the
bubonic plague
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between 1894 and 1901. Established in 1913, the cemetery was finally removed in 1948.
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.
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Kowloon
Kowloon City District
Valleys of Hong Kong