History
Sheung Wo Che was originally a small village with a 150 year history. It was expanded after the construction of the Kowloon–Canton Railway in 1911, when city dwellers built holiday villas and summer retreat there. The houses at Nos.7-10, built between the 1930s and the 1960s, are a surviving examples of this expansion. The buildings have been listed as Grade III historic buildings in 2011. The Nam Ancestral Hall, built in 1901, is also located in the village.
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