Khlong Chak Phra Subdistrict

Khlong Chak Phra (Thai: คลองชักพระ, pronounced [kʰlɔ̄ːŋ t͡ɕʰák pʰráʔ]) is one of the six khwaengs (sub-districts) of Taling Chan District in Bangkok's Thonburi side. It is the location of the district office.

Taling Chan floating market beneath the Southern railway line

Geography

It is named after Khlong Chak Phra, that currents through right side of the area and also a borderline with other districts. Geography of Khlong Chak Phra is long and thin, giving it a curve-like shape and the easternmost of the district, with a total area of 1.251 km2 (0.483 mi2). Most of the area consisting of lowlands along the waterways, therefore often flooding regularly.

Neighbouring sub-districts are (from the north clockwise): Taling Chan in its district, Arun Amarin, Bang Khun Non and Bang Khun Si of Bangkok Noi District, Khuha Sawan of Phasi Charoen District, Bang Phrom, Bang Ramat, and Chimphli in its district.[1]

Transportation

The area is served by the Bang Ramat Railway Halt of the State Railway of Thailand (SRT), whose Southern Line passes beside Taling Chan Floating Market and Taling Chan District Office.[2]

Local legend

Khlong Chak Phra has a legend about a ghost of a pregnant woman alike the Mae Nak Phra Khanong named "Phi Yai Wan" (ผียายหวาน, "ghost of Mrs. Wan"). Like well-known a Mae Nak Phra Khanong who died while still pregnant, it is said that her spirit haunt people, including tuk-tuk or taxi drivers at night in many different ways, such as hail a cab, but then suddenly vanished mysteriously. Believed that her story is true about the 1970–71. It is said that she was a local woman shot and killed because of jealousy by her husband on the railway side near the Taling Chan Junction and Wat Taling Chan. At present, there is still an old wooden boat preserved at Wat Champa in Bang Ramat, believed to be the boat of Yai Wan.[3]

Places of interest
  • Taling Chan Floating Market
  • Wat Chang Lek
  • Wat Taling Chan
  • Wat Paknam Fang Nuea
  • Song Khlong Floating Market[4]

References
  1. "ข้อมูลแขวงคลองชักพระ เขตตลิ่งชัน กรุงเทพมหานคร" [Information of Khlong Chak Phra Subdistrict, Taling Chan District, Bangkok]. ThaiTambon.com (in Thai).
  2. Red Fox (2007-02-02). "พักเที่ยงริมทางที่...บางระมาด" [Roadside lunch break at ... Bang Ramat]. Pantip.com (in Thai).
  3. Thongdaeng, Wityada; Thongpan, Saran (September 2012). ชุมทางตลิ่งชัน ย่านเก่า [ก่อน] กรุงเทพฯ [Taling Chan Junction old neighbourhood [before] Bangkok] (in Thai). Bangkok: Muang Boran Journal. pp. 112–113. ISBN 978-974-7727-93-7.
  4. COMZINE69. "ตลาดน้ำตลิ่งชัน ใกล้ใจกลางกรุงเทพฯ พร้อมเที่ยวตลาดน้ำตลิ่งชันพาชมบรรยายกาศสองฝั่งคลอง วิถีชีวิตไทย" [Taling Chan floating market Near the center of Bangkok along with visiting the Taling Chan floating market, take a look atmosphere on the two sides of the canal, Thai way of life]. com2ine.com (in Thai).

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