It lies on a flat alluvial plain north of Tai Mo Shan mountain and east of Yuen Long town.
[citation needed] Kam Tin is the origin of the biggest indigenous Tang Clan (鄧) in Hong Kong.
Known as "General House," the mansion has determined to be a Grade II historic building of special merit by the Antiquities Advisory Board (AAB) of Hong Kong.
Also located in Fung Kat Heung is Miu Kok Yuen (妙覺園), a Buddhist nunnery and communal martyrs' grave built in 1936 by the Tang (鄧) clan of Kam Tin (錦田) in commemoration of the Punti and other indigenous inhabitants of the New Territories who protested British colonial rule and died fighting in the Six-Day War of 1899.
This communal grave at Fung Kat Heung is the largest in the New Territories, measuring about 15 metres across and bearing the Chinese inscription 'Six days of outstanding bravery'.
Kam Tin is in Primary One Admission (POA) School Net 74 (Yuen Long East).