History
The valley once hosted a village and a river ran to Ma Tau Kok and emptied into Kowloon Bay. The valley was mainly cultivated areas.
There was a cemetery, Hau Pui Loong Cemetery, of 19 acres (7.7 ha) in area. Part of is a Plague Trench (疫症墳場) for deaths due to bubonic plague between 1894 and 1901. Established in 1913, it was finally removed in 1948.
New Asia College, one of three founding colleges of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, was located near Tin Kwong Road and Farm Road.
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