Current condition
Ruin
This is one of the eight villages that were cleared in preparation to build the Shing Mun Reservoir. The government resettled all the villagers:
All the resettlement was completed by the end of 1931, after all the compensations had been settled.
Around 80 villagers from Fu Yung Shan and Nam Fong To were resettled in Wo Hop Shek.
Source: Historic Building Appraisal N338 - Lo Ancestral Hall, Wo Hop Shek Village, Fanling, N.T
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Rehoused Villagers
Some years ago whilst walking around Kam Tin town near Yuen Long, (my wife and I had recently moved to a village near there), I found myself in the vicinity of the famous walled village of Kat Hing Wai.
Glancing up I saw a sign pointing to "Shing Mun Shui Tong San Tsuen" - Shing Mun Reservoir New Village. It didn't require a great deal of research to learn that Kam Tin was one of the locations where Shing Mun villagers were rehoused when the reservoir was built.
Apparently there was no hostility or animosity between the indigenous inhabitants and the newcomers when the latter moved in, although there was a language gap!
(Hakka? Cantonese?). I'll leave it to the experts.