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Malmesbury is a town of approximately 36,000 inhabitants in the Western Cape province of South Africa, about 65 km north of Cape Town. The town is the largest in the Swartland (‘black land’) which took its name from the renosterbos ('rhino bush'), an indigenous plant that turns black in the warm, dry summers.
According to the 2022 South African census, the municipality had a population of 148,331 people. Of these, 64.1% identify as "Coloured," 18.3% as "Black Africans," and 15.7% as "White." [4] According to the 2016 Stats SA Community Survey the municipality has a population of 133,762 people in 39,139 households.
Malmesbury (/ ˈ m ɑː (l) m z b ər i /) is a town and civil parish in north Wiltshire, England, which lies approximately 14 miles (23 km) west of Swindon, 25 miles (40 km) northeast of Bristol, and 9 miles (14 km) north of Chippenham.
Kalbaskraal is a settlement in the Swartland Local Municipality in the Western Cape province of South Africa. It was established in 1898 at the site of a railway junction for the narrow gauge railway to Hopefield and eventually Saldanha.
Possible tectonic setting during deposition of the Malmesbury group. (after Compton 2004) The late-Precambrian age Malmesbury Group is the oldest rock formation in the area, consisting of alternating layers of dark grey fine-grained greywacke, sandstone and slate, seen along the rocky Sea Point and Bloubergstrand shorelines, and from the Strand to Gordon's Bay.
The R302 is a Regional Route in South Africa that connects Bellville with Malmesbury. [1] It covers a distance of 54 kilometres (34 mi) in a north-south direction. Route
Charlton Park is a country house and estate in Wiltshire, England, 2 miles (3.2 km) northeast of the town of Malmesbury. Charlton Park House is a Grade I listed building and a leading example of the prodigy house. [1] Malmesbury Abbey held Charlton manor from before 1086 [2] until the Dissolution.
Philadelphia (Afrikaans pronunciation: [fələˈdælfia]) is a village in the Western Cape province of South Africa. This village is 33 km south-west of Malmesbury and 23 km north-east of Durbanville. It was developed from a parish of the Dutch Reformed Church established in 1863. The name is of biblical origin (Rev. 3:7-13) and means ...