Heung Fan Liu

[1] Incense milling may have been conducted in Heung Fan Liu as early as the late Ming dynasty.

Sites with similar characteristics also existed in Pak Kiu Tsai (白橋仔) in Tai Po and Tso Kung Tam [zh] (曹公潭) in Tsuen Wan.

[2] In 1932, Herbert Edward Lanepart (林伯氏), a Latvian believed to be of German origin, set up a nudist club by the river in Heung Fan Liu.

The club moved to Wok Tai Wan in 1936, because the lease on Heung Fan Liu was expiring and the building of Shing Mun Reservoir in 1935 had lowered the level of the river and made the water murky.

[1] The first recorded sighting of a ashy woodswallow (Artamus fuscus) in Hong Kong took place in Heung Fan Liu on April 23, 2011.