Yau Kom Tau Village
village of Hong Kong
Yau Kom Tau Village (Chinese: 油柑頭村), sometimes transliterated as Yau Kam Tau Village, is a village located in the Yau Kom Tau area, west of Tsuen Wan, in Tsuen Wan District, Hong Kong.
Administration
Yau Kom Tau is a recognized village under the New Territories Small House Policy. It is one of the villages represented within the Tsuen Wan Rural Committee. For electoral purposes, Yau Kom Tau Village is part of the Lai To constituency, which was formerly represented by Ronald Tse Man-chak until July 2021.
History
Yau Kom Tau Village was established in 1864 and settled by the Yeung family from Yuen Long. It was originally located at the place of the current Nan Fung Centre, next to Tsuen Wan station. The village was resited to the present location in 1984, following the development of the MTR.
Features
An ancestral hall, rebuilt in 1984, is located at the entrance of the village.
A Tin Hau Temple is located in Yau Kom Tau Village. It is a single storey stone house. It lies by the side of the Yau Kam Tau Village Rural Committee, on a terrace built by boulders.
“Yau Kom Tau Village” enters the record as village of Hong Kong. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Village, village and Hong can confirm, complicate or overturn.
Why this record matters
“Yau Kom Tau Village” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Village, village and Hong provides the most credible route into that argument.
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 31, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q107022952. Authority coordinates are 22.372, 114.097. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2021, 1864 and 1984.
A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. 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.
- Historic place names
- Jurisdictional context
- Routes into maps and plans
Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.
Three-step research path
- Establish the record: confirm the title “Yau Kom Tau Village”, its source revision and the description used here.
- Expand the search: follow Yau Kom Tau Village primary sources, Yau Kom Tau Village archive and Village research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
- Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.
Questions for further research
- Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Yau Kom Tau Village”?
- Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
- What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
Search terms from this dossier
This entry incorporates text from “Yau Kom Tau Village” 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.