Abbotsdale

Abbotsdale
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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]
• Total	8.70 km2 (3.36 sq mi)
Population  (2011) [1]
• Total	3,762
• Density	432/km2 (1,120/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011) [1]
•  Black African	4.2%
•  Coloured	95.3%
•  Indian/Asian	0.2%
•  White	0.2%
• Other	0.2%
First languages (2011) [1]
•  Afrikaans	92.8%
•  English	3.1%
•  Xhosa	2.7%
• Other	1.4%
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]

References

1. "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.