Goodwood, Cape Town
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.[2]
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| Coordinates: 33°54′40.72″S 18°33′02.13″E | |
| Country | South Africa |
| Province | Western Cape |
| Municipality | City of Cape Town |
| Area | |
| • Total | 17.94 km2 (6.93 sq mi) |
| Population (2011)[1] | |
| • Total | 50,285 |
| • Density | 2,800/km2 (7,300/sq mi) |
| Racial makeup (2011) | |
| • Black African | 17.9% |
| • Coloured | 37.9% |
| • Indian/Asian | 3.4% |
| • White | 37.9% |
| • Other | 2.9% |
| First languages (2011) | |
| • English | 50.9% |
| • Afrikaans | 35.0% |
| • Xhosa | 4.9% |
| • Other | 9.2% |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (SAST) |
| Postal code (street) | 7460 |
| PO box | 7459 |
| Area code | 021 |
The town was established in 1905[3] 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.[4]
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.[4]
Schools
- Fairbairn College, an English-medium coeducational high school
- JG Meiring High School, an English-medium coeducational high school, this school is now built on the spot where the racecourse was built
- Hoërskool President, a dual-medium coeducational high school
- Goodwood Park, an dual-medium coeducational primary 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.[5] 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[6] and at the Bureau of Heraldry in August 1993.[7]
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.
References
- "Main Place Goodwood". Census 2011.
- Essential Travel Info
- "Goodwood". South African History Online. 2011-03-16. Retrieved 2017-11-04.
- "Goodwood". Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa. 5. Nasou Limited. 1971. p. 269. ISBN 978-0-625-00324-2.
- Rosenthal, E. (1980) Goodwood and its Story.
- Cape of Good Hope Official Gazette 2969 (1 May 1959).
- National Archives of South Africa : Data of the Bureau of Heraldry
Further reading
- Rosenthal, Eric (1980). Goodwood and its story. Cape Town: National Book Printers. p. 126.
Other links
- Goodwood (in the Afrikaans language Wikipedia)
- Goodwood Directory
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