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On the outskirts of Somerset West the old Firgrove Road branches off the road to Stellenbosch. A couple of kilo- metres further on and to the right the large group of buildings belonging to the farm Groot Paardevlei is situated. Type of site: Farmstead Cape Town, Somerset West: Somerset West Provincial Heritage Site
Nova Constantia originally formed part of the Groot Constantia estate and the house probably dates from the first quarter of the 19th century. The homestead is U-shaped and is regarded, mainly because of its impressive gables and its setting, as one of the finest Cape Dutch houses. Type of site: Farmstead. Cape Town, Constantia: Wynberg
Vergelegen's Cape Dutch house, gardens and winery are open to visitors. Interesting features of any visit include a trip up the mountain to the winery plant, and a walk under the vast Camphor laurels ( Cinnamomum camphora ) planted by Willem van der Stel in about 1705 which have been declared a protected provincial heritage site . [ 2 ]
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap Download coordinates as: KML GPX (all coordinates) GPX (primary coordinates) GPX (secondary coordinates) This is a list of the heritage sites in Worcester, Western Cape as recognised by the South African Heritage Resources Agency. SAHRA identifier Site name Description Town District NHRA status Coordinates Image 9/2/110/0001 Olifantsberg, Worcester ...
Main Road Somerset West in 1909. A cattle post was established here [clarification needed] by Dutch soldiers in 1672.. A town developed around the Lourens River (originally "Tweederivier", which means "Second River"; "Eersterivier", meaning "First River" passes through Stellenbosch, some 16 km (9.9 mi) to the north) and the farm of Vergelegen (Dutch: "remotely situated"), an 18th-century ...
Somerset West is largely a residential and commercial area. Suburbs of Somerset West; Strand, (Afrikaans for 'beach') is a seaside resort town, situated on the north-eastern edge of False Bay south of the Helderberg mountain and the N2, between Somerset West and Gordon's Bay, and is about 50 km southeast of Cape Town City Bowl. [12]
Land-en-Zeezicht is a neighbourhood of Somerset West, in the Western Cape, South Africa.It was originally part of the historic Vergelegen wine estate. In 1914, Hendrik Hendriksz came into possession of the area known as Land-en-Zeezicht, building his mansion on Verster Avenue.
This is a list of cities and towns in the Western Cape province of South Africa. ... Somerset West; Strand; West Coast. The West Coast District Municipality. Aurora;