Chek Keng

Chek Keng is located within Sai Kung East Country Park,^[1] on the northern coast of Sai Kung Peninsula and facing the Chek Keng Hau (赤徑口) aka East Arm Bay of Long Harbour.^[2]

Chek Keng is a recognized village under the New Territories Small House Policy.^[3]

Chek Keng was probably founded more than 200 years ago. It was historically a multi-surname Hakka village. It was reported in 2003 that Chek Keng had only one resident, an 84 year old woman.^[4]

The Holy Family Chapel (聖家小堂) in Chek Keng was built in 1874 to replace an earlier chapel that had been severely damaged by a storm in 1867. The whole village later converted to Catholicism. During the Japanese Occupation of Hong Kong, the chapel was a base of the Hong Kong-Kowloon Independent Battalion of the East River Guerrilla (東江縱隊港九獨立大隊).^[5][6] The chapel is listed as a Grade II historic building.^[7]

• Chek Keng Pier
• Bradbury Hall youth hostel^[8]