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Country
  
South Africa

Municipality
  
City of Cape Town

PO box
  
7459

Local time
  
Friday 2:34 AM

Province
  
Western Cape

Postal code (street)
  
7460

Area code
  
021

Goodwood, Cape Town

Weather
  
14°C, Wind N at 2 km/h, 85% Humidity

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Goodwood is a suburb situated between the northern and southern suburbs of Cape Town, South Africa. It is 10 kilometres from the city centre and accessible from the N1, N7 and N2 highways.

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Map of Goodwood, Cape Town, 7460, South Africa

The town was established in 1905 and named after Goodwood Racecourse in England as the founders intended to make it a racing centre. A course was actually constructed, but after only one meeting it was abandoned.

The first railway station was built in 1905, and today there are three within the municipal area: Goodwood, Vasco and Elsies River. These all lie on the Cape Town-Johannesburg main line.

High schools in the area

  • Fairbairn College, an English-medium coeducational high school
  • JG Meiring High School, a dual-medium coeducational high school, this school is now built on the spot where the racecourse was built
  • Hoërskool President, an Afrikaans-medium coeducational high school
  • Coat of arms

    Goodwood was a municipality in its own right from 1938 to 1996. In 1939, the council adopted a pseudo-heraldic "coat of arms" depicting an aeroplane, an ox-wagon, and a horse jumping over a fence. It replaced this device with a proper coat of arms, designed by Ivan Mitford-Barberton, in 1958. The council registered the arms with the Cape Provincial Administration in May 1959 and at the Bureau of Heraldry in August 1993.

    The arms were : Argent, on a fess Gules, between in chief four trees with six leaves each and in base three pallets, Sable, the central pallet surmounted by a cogwheel counterchanged, a leopard passant, Argent and Sable. In layman's terms : a silver shield displaying, from top to bottom, a row of four black trees with six leaves each, a red horizontal stripe displaying a leopard, and three black vertical stripes with a cogwheel on the centre stripe.

    The crest was a palamino unicorn issuing from a golden mural crown and holding a red disc between its forelegs, and the motto was Procedo.

  • Goodwood (in the Afrikaans language Wikipedia)
  • Goodwood Directory
  • References

    Goodwood, Cape Town Wikipedia


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