Highlights of the Bedok Trail Bedok Reservoir
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Tampines West station Highlights of the Bedok Trail Bedok Reservoir There are 10 markers on the 15km Bedok Heritage Trail which helpEDO users navigate some of the most interesting spots in the neighbourhood and its surroundings. B K RE SER D VOIR ROA Fengshan 10 BEDOK NORTH Estate AVENUE 4 8 Simpang Bedok and Koh Sek Lim BEDOK NORTH ROAD BEDOK NORTH Tanah Merah BEDOK ROAD 1 CHAI CHEE STREET STREET 2 station Highlands of Bedok Bedok Prior to land reclaimation, these undulating hills were once ITE College Heritage 11 Town cultivated as fruit and vegetable farms. Excavated earth from Central (Bedok 9 the hills was used to ll the sea, to form today's East Coast Park Corner centre GI ROAD Campus) PER CHAN NEW UP BEDOK SOUTH AVENUE 3 and Marine Parade. Technopark Chai Chee @ Chai Chee Bedok BEDOK SOUTH Kampong Bedok station AVENUE 2 BEDOK SOUTH AVENUE 1 In the 20th century, the rubber tree SOUTH ROAD 7 EDOK SIGLAP ROAD B plantation that was Temasek Junior previously Kampong College Bedok Darat became OAD a vibrant centre of T R 5 OAS Malay life. Street R EAST C Jalan Puay Poon 4 UPPE 6 names reected community uses for the streets. For T PARKWAY example, the “Greja” 2 COAS 3 EAST in Jalan Greja comes from the Malay word for “church”. East Coast Park Siglap, Frankel Estate and Opera Estate MARINE PARADE ROAD Military Seafront homes and holiday lifestyle landmarks in the east One of the few remaining structures of the once-lively Former coastline beachside dining scene is the Hua Yu Wee seafood A painting featuring a guard Along Marine Parade Road, before Nallur Road, is a well-preserved seawall that traces the restaurant. It is housed in a 1920s bungalow with detached post facing the sea original coastal embankment. Its posts and balustrades show inuences from colonial double-storey wings, outhouses and steps leading to the at Tanah Merah. architecture, while its iron gates feature seaside-themed motifs. former beachfront. PHOTOS: NATIONAL HERITAGE BOARD STRAITS TIMES GRAPHICS.