Abbotsdale
Place in Western Cape, South Africa
33°29′13″S 18°40′33″E / 33.48694°S 18.67583°E / -33.48694; 18.67583[1]
(2011)[1]
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7300
Abbotsdale is a settlement in West Coast District Municipality Swartland Municipality in the Western Cape province of South Africa.
Here in around 1854 the Abbotsdale Mission was founded [2] on a 1600 acre farm purchased by Bishop Gray of the Anglican Church.[3]
References
- ^ a b c d "Main Place Abbotsdale". Census 2011.
- ^ Wood, Michael Henry Mansel (1913). A father in God : the episcopate of William West Jones. archive.org: London Macmillan. pp. 125.
- ^ Pascoe, Charles Frederick (1901). Two hundred years of the S.P.G.: an historical account of the Society for the propagation of the gospel in foreign parts, 1701-1900. Archive.org. pp. 291.
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Municipalities and communities of West Coast District Municipality, Western Cape
District seat: Moorreesburg
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