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Kingswood Villas () is a
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 ...
in
Tin Shui Wai
Tin Shui Wai New Town is a satellite town in the northwestern New Territories of Hong Kong. Originally a ' fish pond area, it was developed in the 1980s as the second new town in Yuen Long District and the eighth in Hong Kong. It is due northw ...
,
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 ...
,
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 has a total of 58
residential
A residential area is a land used in which housing predominates, as opposed to industrial and commercial areas.
Housing may vary significantly between, and through, residential areas. These include single-family housing, multi-family residen ...
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
Cheung Kong (Holdings) Limited, is a multinational conglomerate, based in Hong Kong. It was one of Hong Kong's leading multi-national conglomerates. The company merged with its subsidiary Hutchison Whampoa on 3 June 2015, as part of a major ...
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 Court)
Demographics
In the
2016 by-census, the population of the estate was recorded as 39,964. The median age of the residents was 44.4, slightly more than the Hong Kong-wide figure of 43.4.
Transportation
*
Light Rail
**
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 ...
(for Locwood Court and Sherwood Court)
**
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 (for ...
(for Chestwood Court)
**
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 ...
(for Lynwood Court)
**
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 ...
(for Maywood Court, Kingswood Court and +WOO)
*Residential Service Bus
**There are several non-franchised residential
bus routes
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between Kingswood Villas and urban districts, which started operations in 1991. It was originally operated by
Citybus. But Citybus decided to withdraw all routes and
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 guest ...
replaced Citybus to operate them in 2006.
Withdrawal of Citybus Kingswood Villas Residential Bus Services
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References
External links
Kingswood Villas Official Site
* S.K. Hui, A. Cheung, J. Pang
"A Hierarchical Bayesian Approach for Residential Property Valuation:Application to Hong Kong Housing Market"
''International Real Estate Review'', 2010 Vol. 13 No.1: pp. 1 – 29
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Private housing estates in Hong Kong
Tin Shui Wai
CK Hutchison Holdings
1992 establishments in Hong Kong