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Tung Kok Wai

walled village in 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 revisionMar 18, 2025
Entity authorityQ11104112 ↗
Source-derived summary

Tung Kok Wai (Chinese: 東閣圍), also known as Ling Kok Wai (嶺角圍), is a walled village in Lung Yeuk Tau, Fanling, Hong Kong. It is one of the Five Wai (walled villages) and Six Tsuen (villages) in Lung Yeuk Tau.

Administration

Tung Kok Wai is one of the villages represented within the Fanling District Rural Committee. For electoral purposes, Tung Kok Wai is part of the Queen's Hill constituency, which is currently represented by Law Ting-tak.

Tung Kok Wai, as part of Lung Yeuk Tau, is a recognized village under the New Territories Small House Policy.

Conservation

Tung Kok Wai is located along the Lung Yeuk Tau Heritage Trail. The walled village is listed as a Grade I historic building of Hong Kong.

See also

Walled villages of Hong Kong

References

External links

Delineation of area of existing village Lung Yeuk Tau (Fanling) for election of resident representative (2019 to 2022) (includes Tung Kok Wai)

Antiquities and Monuments Office. Hong Kong Traditional Chinese Architectural Information System. Tung Kok Wai

Antiquities and Monuments Office.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Tung Kok Wai” as walled village in Hong Kong. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2019, 2022—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Tung, walled and village can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as walled village in Hong Kong. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 18, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q11104112. Authority coordinates are 22.500, 114.153. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2019 and 2022.

Critical limits

Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. 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.

Best used for
  • 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 “Tung Kok Wai”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Tung Kok Wai primary sources, Tung Kok Wai archive and Tung 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 “Tung Kok Wai”?
  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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This entry incorporates text from “Tung Kok Wai” 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.