Melrose Estate

Melrose Estate
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Coordinates: 26°08′42″S28°03′04″E / 26.145°S 28.051°E / -26.145; 28.051
Country	South Africa
Province	Gauteng
Municipality	City of Johannesburg
Main Place	Johannesburg
Area [1]
• Total	0.59 km2 (0.23 sq mi)
Population  (2011) [1]
• Total	730
• Density	1,200/km2 (3,200/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011) [1]
•  Black African	34.1%
•  Coloured	2.1%
•  Indian/Asian	5.9%
•  White	57.1%
• Other	0.8%
First languages (2011) [1]
•  English	68.2%
•  Zulu	7.7%
•  Afrikaans	5.6%
•  Northern Sotho	3.8%
• Other	14.7%
Time zone	UTC+2 (SAST)

Melrose Estate is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region E of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality. Until the early 2000s, the suburb had many traditional houses, which are rapidly giving way to cluster house complexes.^{[ citation needed ]}

History

The land at the Melrose Estate of 713 acres was bought by business man Henry Brown Marshall in 1893. ^{[2] : 72} He would plant trees on the estate and build his home there. ^{[2] : 68} When the suburb was developed, the street Glenhove Road, that passes through the suburbs of Oakland, Melrose and Houghton was named after Marshall's birth estate in Scotland, Glenhove. ^{[2] : 72}

References

1. "Sub Place Melrose Estate". Census 2011.
2. Shorten, John R. (1970). The Johannesburg Saga. Johannesburg: John R. Shorten Pty Ltd. p. 1159.