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Beverly Garden

Home Ownership Scheme housing estate in Tseung Kwan O, Hong Kong

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ10954217
Source-derived summary

Beverly Garden (Chinese: 富康花園) is a Home Ownership Scheme and Private Sector Participation Scheme court in Tseung Kwan O, New Territories, Hong Kong near Tseung Kwan O Plaza, Tseung Kwan O Sports Ground, The Grandiose and MTR Tseung Kwan O station. It was jointly developed by the Hong Kong Housing Authority and Chevalier Group, and has a total of ten blocks built on reclaimed land and was completed in 1998.

Houses

Demographics

According to the 2016 by-census, Beverly Garden had a population of 12,663. The median age was 45.1 and the majority of residents (95.8 per cent) were of Chinese ethnicity. The average household size was 3.2 people. The median monthly household income of all households (i.e. including both economically active and inactive households) was HK$34,300.

Politics

Beverly Garden is located in Fu Kwan constituency of the Sai Kung District Council. It was formerly represented by Luk Ping-choi, who was elected in the 2019 elections until July 2021.

Editorial summary

“Beverly Garden” enters the record as home Ownership Scheme housing estate in Tseung Kwan O, Hong Kong. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Beverly, Garden and Home can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1998, 2016, 2019, 2021—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Beverly, Garden and Home.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Beverly Garden” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Beverly, Garden and Home provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 9, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q10954217. Authority coordinates are 22.310, 114.262. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1998, 2016, 2019 and 2021.

Critical limits

Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

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  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
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Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Beverly Garden”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Beverly Garden primary sources, Beverly Garden archive and Beverly research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Beverly Garden”?
  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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This entry incorporates text from Beverly Garden” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.