- Tsing Yi Bay
Tsing Yi Bay (zh-t|t=青衣灣) was a
bay at the east side ofHong Kong 'sTsing Yi Island , besideRambler Channel , which is approximatelyTsing Yi Park nowadays. The whole bay was reclaimed for the development ofnew town . Beforereclamation , it was surrounded by places known asTsing Leng Tsui (青嶺嘴),Sheung Ko Tan (上高灘),Ha Chung Mei (下涌尾),Tai Wong Ha (大王下) andTsing Yi Town (青衣墟). The names of those places have since changed, and can now be translated, approximately, asGrand Horizon ,Green Field Garden ,Fung Shue Wo Road ,Tsing Yi Estate andTsing Yi Garden .hallowing
The mud and sand in the stream of
Liu To settled on the shore of Tsing Yi Bay. A marsh was formed at the mouth of the stream. The bay became shollower and shollower. And finally, a neck, between Tsing Yi Town and Sheung Ko Tan, was formed. The inner water, now separate from the bay outside the neck, becameTsing Yi Lagoon .Reclamation
In the 1980s the
Hong Kong Government started to reclaim the bay in three phases. The bay has now been completely reclaimed and the shore has become straight, fromNga Ying Chau toTsing Leng Tsui .References
*cite book|title=Tsuen Wan: Growth of a New Town and Its People.|author=James Hayes|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=Hong Kong|date=1993
*cite book|title=新界年鑑|publisher=華僑日報|language=Chinese
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