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Abbotsdale is a settlement in West Coast District Municipality Swartland Municipality in the Western Cape province of South Africa.
Abbotsdale | |
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  Abbotsdale  Abbotsdale | |
| Coordinates: 33°29′13″S 18°40′33″E / 33.48694°S 18.67583°E | |
| Country | South Africa |
| Province | Western Cape |
| District | West Coast |
| Municipality | Swartland |
| Area | |
• Total | 8.70 km2 (3.36 sq mi) |
| Population (2011)[1] | |
• Total | 3,762 |
| • Density | 430/km2 (1,100/sq mi) |
| Racial makeup (2011) | |
| • Black African | 4.2% |
| • Coloured | 95.3% |
| • Indian/Asian | 0.2% |
| • White | 0.2% |
| • Other | 0.2% |
| First languages (2011) | |
| • Afrikaans | 92.8% |
| • English | 3.1% |
| • Xhosa | 2.7% |
| • Other | 1.4% |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (SAST) |
| Postal code (street) | 7300 |
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
edit- ^ 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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