LCW(荔枝窩) Village is a relatively large, well-preserved walled village built over 300 years ago by
the Hakka people who migrate to Sha Tau Kok from northern Guangdong, Jiangxi and Fujian,
etc. after the Evacuation Edict was rescinded in the early Qing dynasty. Residents in Sha Tau
Kok formed ten local inter-village alliances called Shap Yeuk (十約) to maintain local
security (e.g. to resist pirates and powerful clans in the region) and to handle disputes within
the villages. In particular, LCW and six (6) neighbouring villages, namely So Lo Pun (鎖
羅盆), Sam A (三椏), Mui Tsz Lam (梅子林), Kop Tong (蛤塘), Siu Tan (小灘)
and Ngau Shi Wu (牛屎湖), formed the ninth alliance called Hing Chun Yeuk (慶春約,
HCY). There were two (2) other neighbouring Hakka villages, namely Kuk Po (谷埔)
and Fung Hang (鳳坑), to the West of LCW which had been inhabited by different clans
in about the same period. Many traditional styles of architecture and customs are preserved
in these HCY and neighbouring villages, due to their remoteness from the urban areas and the
designation of Sha Tau Kok as a Frontier Closed Area from 1951, limiting visitors to these
villages.
To facilitate the effective evaluation of the site condition (e.g. village house configuration,
footpath and natural stream embankment conditions, etc.) and the planning of minor
improvement works in LCW, a pilot geospatial survey using photogrammetry and/or other
advanced surveying technology was conducted in 2019 for testing the capability and
performance of the survey technologies with a view to establishing a baseline condition of
LCW. Following the building of the LCW model using the data collected from the pilot
geospatial survey, it is proposed to extend the geospatial surveys to the HCY and neighbouring
villages around LCW taking into account the experience gained and with suitable
modification to the surveying and model building techniques used in the pilot geospatial
survey. Photorealistic 3-Dimensional (3D) models with street views of the HCY and
neighbouring villages around LCW are also proposed to be built based on the data collected
from the geospatial surveys and other available sources, to allow users to better visualize and
appreciate the environment of these villages.