Yuen Long Park, Urban park in Yuen Long District, Hong Kong.
Yuen Long Park covers 7.5 hectares on the slope of Shui Ngau Ling, built in 1988 with the existing terrain and trees kept in place. Its landmark is a 30-metre, seven-level pagoda: an open aviary at the base and a viewing deck on top, its reddish-orange ribbed panels stepping up above the trees. Below are a waterfall garden with an artificial lake, a gateball lawn, football pitches and a fountain plaza.
The site was originally a natural woodland at Shui Ngau Ling before the park opened to the public in October 1991. During development, many of the existing trees were preserved to respect the natural structure.
The park's name was shortened from Yuen Long Town Park, and its hilltop pagoda is locally said to have been designed to suppress ghosts, a belief tied to the site's wartime past as a burial ground and execution site. Several graves of the Tang clan, Yuen Long's indigenous residents, stand within the grounds.
The park is built on the slope of Shui Ngau Ling, so paths climb and descend between the gateball court, football pitches and fountain plaza. The seven-level pagoda stands on the hilltop, with an aviary at its base and a viewing deck above; the upper deck looks over Yuen Long and Tin Shui Wai. An automatic weather station commissioned on 20 March 2015 by the Hong Kong Observatory operates in the park.
The gateball pitch was the first in the Regional Council's service area, and the park also holds an automatic weather station commissioned by the Hong Kong Observatory on 20 March 2015, whose temperature readings appear round-the-clock on the observatory's website.
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