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Main Road Somerset West in 1909. A cattle post was established here [clarification needed] by Dutch soldiers in 1672.. A town developed around the Lourens River (originally "Tweederivier", which means "Second River"; "Eersterivier", meaning "First River" passes through Stellenbosch, some 16 km (9.9 mi) to the north) and the farm of Vergelegen (Dutch: "remotely situated"), an 18th-century ...
The Hottentots Holland Nature Reserve is a World Heritage Site with an area of 70,000 hectares from Elgin to north of Villiersdorp, between the Stellenbosch Mountains and the Groenland mountains. [2] The reserve functions as a conservation area for mountain fynbos, with about 1300 plant species, of which some are rare and endemic.
Withycombe is a village, civil parish, and former manor 2.5 miles (4 km) south east of Dunster, and 5 miles (8 km) from Minehead within the Exmoor National Park in the Somerset West and Taunton district of Somerset, England. The parish includes the village of Rodhuish. The manor house of the manor of Withycombe survives as Sandhill Farm. [2]
Sir Lowry's Pass View from Sir Lowry's Pass towards Somerset West and Helderberg. Sir Lowry's Pass is a mountain pass on the N2 national road in the Western Cape province of South Africa. It crosses the Hottentots Holland Mountains between Somerset West and the Elgin valley, on the main route between Cape Town and the Garden Route. A railway ...
Exmoor is loosely defined as an area of hilly open moorland in west Somerset and north Devon in South West England. It is named after the River Exe, the source of which is situated in the centre of the area, two miles north-west of Simonsbath. Exmoor is more precisely defined as the area of the former ancient royal hunting forest, also called ...
Somerset 51°08′15″N 3°22′50″W / 51.1376°N 3.3806°W / 51.1376; - Roadwater is a village 3 miles (5 km) south-west of Williton , on the northern edge of the Exmoor National Park , in Somerset , England.
The districts of Somerset are West Somerset, South Somerset, Taunton Deane, Mendip and Sedgemoor. The two administratively independent unitary authorities, which were established on 1 April 1996 following the breakup of the county of Avon, are North Somerset and Bath and North East Somerset.
Newton Park was built in 1762–5 by Joseph Langton (grandson of Joseph Langton (c.1637–1719), of Newton Park, Member of Parliament for Bath from 1690 to 1695, [2]) to the design of Stiff Leadbetter. [3] Newton Park was the ancestral home of the women's rights campaigner Lady Anna and M.P. William Henry Powell Gore-Langton (1824 1873). [4]