Goodwood, Western Cape
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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.[1]
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.[2]
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.[2]
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.[3] 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[4] and at the Bureau of Heraldry in August 1993.[5]
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
- ^ Essential Travel Info
- ^ a b "Goodwood". Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa. Vol. 5. Nasou Limited. 1971. p. 269. ISBN 978-0-625-00324-2.
{{cite encyclopedia}}:|access-date=requires|url=(help) - ^ Rosenthal, E. (1980) Goodwood and its Story.
- ^ Cape of Good Hope Official Gazette 2969 (1 May 1959).
- ^ http://www.national.archsrch.gov.za
Further reading
- Rosenthal, Eric (1980). Goodwood and its story. Cape Town: National Book Printers. p. 126.
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Other links
- Goodwood (in the Afrikaans language Wikipedia)
- Goodwood Directory
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