Hong Kong Jockey Club Tak Wah Park
Jockey Club Tak Wah Park (English: Jockey Club Tak Wah Park) referred Tak Wah Park, Hong Kong is a Chinese garden park, located in the heart of Tsuen Wan, New Territories, Hoi Pa Village site, an area of about 1.63 hectares, sponsored by the Hong Kong Jockey Club building, the first one was completed in 1989, the second phase was completed in 1995. Jockey Club Tak Wah Park by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department, the Hong Kong government on location No site.
The park has two theme gardens, are "Tea Garden" and "herb garden" and the other with a koi pond, a small bridge, stream water, zigzag bridge, pond, cool atrium and public toilets.
Hoi Pa Village site
Wah Park site as a miscellaneous surname Hakka village, after the lifting of great clearance in the Qing Dynasty migrated from mainland China to this settlement.
The park was converted from the site of the ancient sea Pa village house made of Tak Wah Gallery and Environmental Resource Center, are managed by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department and Environmental Protection Department. Converted from an old Hakka houses a built in 1904 from the two-storey, with rammed earth, brick, tiles and built of fir, area of about 400 square meters, announced in 1986 by the Antiquities and Monuments Commission monuments in Hong Kong [2]. Downstairs exhibition hall to show the evolution of the traditional private school education in the New Territories to the village school closed in the course of previous data; Environmental Resource Center opened [3] in 1997 by the government and private groups (initially the Conservancy Association, since 2000 in green force [4]) jointly, renovation funded by the "Woo Wheelock green Fund" and "environment and conservation Fund" to share, there are library, computer room, auditorium, and exhibition areas and a built in imitation of Hakka kitchen and so on.
The park still a righteous Zhang Chen Gongci, was built in two years Guangxu (1876), to commemorate Chen Chen Yizhang built Nianqi ancestor, Chen native of Guangdong manholes after Tingcun Baoan County, led the tribe in the Qianlong period moved Tsuen Wan . Shrine had Xuantong first year (1909) rebuilt, the recent large-scale rehabilitation project in 2005.
Scenic Area Address: Tsuen Wan Wah Street, Hong Kong
Bus routes: Take 313 Road, New Territories GMB Go