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Punggol, or Ponggol, is a neighbourhood in northeastern Singapore

Singapore

Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...

. Presently, much of Punggol is undeveloped, although plans to turn the area into a residential new town

New town

A new town is a specific type of a planned community, or planned city, that was carefully planned from its inception and is typically constructed in a previously undeveloped area. This contrasts with settlements that evolve in a more ad hoc fashion. Land use conflicts are uncommon in new...

(Punggol New Town

Punggol New Town

Punggol New Town is a Housing and Development Board new town in Punggol, within the North-East Region of Singapore.-Etymology:Punggol Point or Tanjong Punggol appears as Tanjong Rangon on Franklin and Jackson's 1828 map of Singapore. Punggol, also spelt as Ponggol, means "hurling sticks at the...

) under the "Punggol 21" initiative have begun to take place in the south-eastern parts of the area bordering neighbouring Sengkang

Sengkang

Sengkang is a sub-urban town in the north-eastern part of Singapore. The Sengkang Planning Area, an urban planning zone under the Urban Redevelopment Authority, covers the Housing and Development Board satellite new town of Sengkang New Town and rural Jalan Kayu.-Etymology and history:Meaning...

Etymology

Punggol Point or Tanjong Punggol appears as Tanjong Rangon on Franklin and Jackson

Philip Jackson (surveyor)

Philip Jackson was a British Royal Navy lieutenant, who laid out the city plan for Singapore in 1822. He was a key person in Raffles plans for the settlement. The Elgin Bridge in Singapore was once named in his honour.-References:...

's 1828 map of Singapore. Punggol, also spelt as Ponggol, means "hurling sticks at the branches of fruit trees to bring them down to the ground" in Malay

Malay language

Malay is a major language of the Austronesian family. It is the official language of Malaysia , Indonesia , Brunei and Singapore...

Double name

The name Punggol is used in Punggol Road, Punggol New Town

Punggol New Town

and its nearby facilities. The older name Ponggol is still retained in two of the street names: Ponggol Seventeenth Avenue and Ponggol Twenty-Fourth Avenue.

History

The Punggol area used to be a well-established rural

Rural

Rural areas or the country or countryside are areas that are not urbanized, though when large areas are described, country towns and smaller cities will be included. They have a low population density, and typically much of the land is devoted to agriculture...

district dotted with farmhouse

Farmhouse

Farmhouse is a general term for the main house of a farm. It is a type of building or house which serves a residential purpose in a rural or agricultural setting. Most often, the surrounding environment will be a farm. Many farm houses are shaped like a T...

s and farm

Farm

A farm is an area of land, or, for aquaculture, lake, river or sea, including various structures, devoted primarily to the practice of producing and managing food , fibres and, increasingly, fuel. It is the basic production facility in food production. Farms may be owned and operated by a single...

structures, which were serviced by roads and dirt tracks. Many of the Chinese villagers were engaged in poultry

Poultry

Poultry are domesticated birds kept by humans for the purpose of producing eggs, meat, and/or feathers. These most typically are members of the superorder Galloanserae , especially the order Galliformes and the family Anatidae , commonly known as "waterfowl"...

, pig

Pig

A pig is any of the animals in the genus Sus, within the Suidae family of even-toed ungulates. Pigs include the domestic pig, its ancestor the wild boar, and several other wild relatives...

or fish

Fish

Fish are a paraphyletic group of organisms that consist of all gill-bearing aquatic vertebrate animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish, as well as various extinct related groups...

farming, as well as plantation

Plantation

A plantation is a long artificially established forest, farm or estate, where crops are grown for sale, often in distant markets rather than for local on-site consumption...

and farm produce. The last pig farm closed down in 1990. Hydroponic non-pollutive vegetable

Vegetable

The noun vegetable usually means an edible plant or part of a plant other than a sweet fruit or seed. This typically means the leaf, stem, or root of a plant....

farms and orchid farms used to flourish along the Cheng Lim Farmways and Buangkok Farmways, along with old kampongs and low-rise residential areas. Most of these farms have given way to the high-rise HDB flats

Apartment

An apartment or flat is a self-contained housing unit that occupies only part of a building...

of Sengkang New Town

Sengkang New Town

Sengkang New Town is a relatively young satellite residential town in the city-state of Singapore. Originally a fishing village, the area is presently undergoing rapid development under the ambition of the Housing and Development Board to transform it into a "21st century township". The town now...

and Punggol New Town

Punggol New Town

.

Historically, Punggol was populated mostly by Teochews

Teochew people

The Chaozhou people are Han people, native to the Chaoshan region of eastern Guangdong province of China who speak the Teochew dialect. Today, most Teochew people live outside China in Southeast Asia especially in Singapore, Thailand, and Malaysia. They can also be found almost anywhere in the...

and Catholic

Catholic

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s. The end of Upper Serangoon Road is known to Teochews as kangkar or "river bank" or "river mouth". Ferries were used on the Serangoon River

Sungei Serangoon

Sungei Serangoon is a river in the north-eastern part of Singapore. The 8-kilometre river starts as a canal near Tampines Road, and flows through Hougang, where it is joined by tributary Sungei Pinang just before Sengkang, before flowing towards Lorong Halus, where it is joined by another...

as transport. An old market

Market

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was also located here. The Catholic missionaries arrived here 140 years ago and set up churches and schools. A Malay kampong, which has since been cleared, could also be found at Tanjong Punggol. At the end of Punggol Port Road, Indonesia

Indonesia

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n and Malaysian fishermen auctioned their catch at the wholesale fish market.

During the Second World War in 1942, about 400 Chinese civilians were massacred by the Japan

Japan

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ese military forces at Punggol Point, the northern tip of the area, in what was to be known as the Punggol Beach Massacre as part of the Sook Ching Massacre

Sook Ching massacre

The Sook Ching massacre was a systematic extermination of perceived hostile elements among the Chinese in Singapore by the Japanese military during the Japanese Occupation of Singapore, after the British colony surrendered on 15 February 1942 during the Second World War. Sook Ching was later...

. Today, that location has been marked as a national heritage

Cultural heritage

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site.

For Singaporeans, the place is well-known for its seafood

Seafood

Seafood is any form of marine life regarded as food by humans. Seafoods include fish, molluscs , crustaceans , echinoderms . Edible sea plants, such as some seaweeds and microalgae, are also seafood, and are widely eaten around the world, especially in Asia...

restaurant

Restaurant

A restaurant is an establishment which prepares and serves food and drink to customers in return for money. Meals are generally served and eaten on premises, but many restaurants also offer take-out and food delivery services...

s but these too are giving way to new sea sports developments. Punggol is also popular for water skiing

Water skiing

thumb|right|A slalom skier making a turn on a slalom waterski.Waterskiing is a sport where an individual is pulled behind a boat or a cable ski installation on a body of water, skimming the surface.-History:...

, skin diving

Free-diving

Freediving is any of various aquatic activities that share the practice of breath-hold underwater diving. Examples include breathhold spear fishing, freedive photography, apnea competitions and, to a degree, snorkeling...

and boating

Boating

Boating is the leisurely activity of travelling by boat, or the recreational use of a boat whether powerboats, sailboats, or man-powered vessels , focused on the travel itself, as well as sports activities, such as fishing or water skiing...

.

Also see:Punggol Road End

Primary Schools

1. Edgefield Primary School
Address : 41 Edgefield Plains, Singapore 828869

2. Greendale Primary School
Address : 50 Edgedale Plains, Singapore 828848

3. Mee Toh School
Address : 21 Edgedale Plains, Singapore 828867

4. Horizon Primary School
Address : 61 Edgedale Plains, Singapore 828819

Secondary Schools

1.Greendale Secondary School

Greendale Secondary School

Greendale Secondary School is a secondary school located in Punggol, in the north-eastern part of Singapore.Greendale Secondary School started as a new school in January 2006...

Address : 51 Edgedale Plains, Singapore 828866

2. Punggol Secondary School

Punggol Secondary School

Punggol Secondary School is a secondary school located in Punggol, in the north-eastern part of Singapore....

Address : 51 Edgefield Plains, Singapore 828870

3. Edgefield Secondary School
Address: 36 Punggol Field (828814)

External links

Punggol 21 - A waterfront town of the 21st Century.
Pasir Ris-Punggol Town Council
Punggolforum.com - a forum for residents to make friends & community bonding.
Pasir Ris-Punggol GRC Town Portal
Punggol.sg - Community Portal for Punggol Residents
Punggol.org - Website about Punggol Town. With all the latest updates on upcoming developments, neighbourhood news as well as pictures of Punggol Town

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