Liu To Village () is one of the oldest villages in
Tsing Yi Island
Tsing Yi, sometimes referred to as Tsing Yi Island, is an island in the urban area of Hong Kong, to the northwest of Hong Kong Island and south of Tsuen Wan. With an area of , the island has extended drastically by reclamation along almost all ...
,
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 at least 200 years of history.
Liu To Village is located in the
Liu To
Liu To () is the area around the valley in the midwest of Tsing Yi Island. There is a stream in the valley watering the narrow band of agricultural fields of Liu To Village (). Its water formerly filled the Tsing Yi Lagoon and nurtured the ric ...
valley. It is surrounded by three mountains and divided into three small communities: North Liu To Village, South Liu To Village and South-west Liu To Village. Some of the housings are
squatters
Squatting is the action of occupying an abandoned or unoccupied area of land or a building, usually residential, that the squatter does not own, rent or otherwise have lawful permission to use. The United Nations estimated in 2003 that there ...
;
some of them are licensed village houses. In the early 1990s, there were about 300 villagers.
References
Tsing Yi
Villages in Kwai Tsing District, Hong Kong
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