Tai Om

Tai Om (Chinese: 大菴) is a village in Lam Tsuen, Tai Po District, Hong Kong.

Cheung Ancestral Hall in Tai Om.
Luk Tak Study Hall in Tai Om.

Administration

Tai Om is a recognized village under the New Territories Small House Policy.[1]

History

Tai Om was historically a single-clan Hakka village, settled by the Cheung family (張). The founding ancestors had moved moved from Wuhua in Guangdong province to Tai Mo Shan, and later settled in Tai Om around 1800.[2] (other sources mention that the village was founded in the 17th century)

At the time of the 1911 census, the population of Tai Om was 162. The number of males was 74.[3]

Conservation

The Tai Om Feng Shui Woodland, covering an area of 2.7 hectares, was designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest in 2005.[4][5] It is located on a knoll behind the village. A part of it was converted into orchards in the 1940s.[6]

Luk Tak Study Hall, built in the 1930s, has been listed as a Grade III historic building.[7]

Tai Om Old Brick Kiln has been listed as a Site of Archaeological Interest.[8]

See also
  • Ping Long, a village adjecent to Tai Om, located to its north

References
  1. "List of Recognized Villages under the New Territories Small House Policy" (PDF). Lands Department. September 2009.
  3. Hase, Patrick (1996). "Traditional Life in the New Territories: The Evidence of the 1911 and 1921 Censuses" (PDF). Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch. 36: 79. ISSN 1991-7295.
  4. "Register of Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs)". Planning Department.
  5. "Site of Special Scientific Interest - Tai Om Fung Shui Woodland" (PDF). Planning Department. 30 September 1992.
  6. Chan, Wing-ho, Michael (2000). Characteristics and genesis of soils in Hong Kong's Fung Shui woodlands (MPhil thesis). The University of Hong Kong. doi:10.5353/th_b2975816. hdl:10722/30290.{{cite thesis}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  7. Antiquities Advisory Board. List of the 1,444 Historic Buildings with Assessment Results
  8. Antiquities and Monuments Office. List of Sites of Archaeological Interest in Hong Kong
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