Abbotsdale

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Abbotsdale
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Abbotsdale
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Abbotsdale
Coordinates: 33°29′13″S18°40′33″E / 33.48694°S 18.67583°E / -33.48694; 18.67583 Coordinates: 33°29′13″S18°40′33″E / 33.48694°S 18.67583°E / -33.48694; 18.67583
Country South Africa
Province Western Cape
District West Coast
Municipality Swartland
Area
[1]
  Total8.70 km2 (3.36 sq mi)
Population
 (2011) [1]
  Total3,762
  Density430/km2 (1,100/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011)
[1]
   Black African 4.2%
   Coloured 95.3%
   Indian/Asian 0.2%
   White 0.2%
  Other0.2%
First languages (2011)
[1]
   Afrikaans 92.8%
   English 3.1%
   Xhosa 2.7%
  Other1.4%
Time zone UTC+2 (SAST)
Postal code (street)
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] .

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Main Place Abbotsdale". Census 2011.
  2. Wood, Michael Henry Mansel (1913). A father in God : the episcopate of William West Jones. archive.org: London Macmillan. pp.  125.
  3. 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.