Malmesbury, Western Cape
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Malmesbury lies in an area known as the Swartland (‘black land’) due to the dark "Renosterbos" ('rhino bush'), an indigenous plant that turns black in the warm, dry summers. Settlers were encouraged to make their home here because of a tepid sulphur chloride mineral spring that was renowned for curing rheumatism.
It no longer attracts the ailing, because it was never developed by the local authority, and in fact today a shopping centre is located on top of the site.
Malmesbury is a town in the Western Cape, and was named after Sir Lowry Cole's father-in-law, the Earl of Malmesbury. The first farms were allocated in 1703.
Malmesbury is the largest town in the Swartland and is about 65km north of Cape Town, South Africa. It is especially known for its grain and wine cultivation as well as sheep and poultry farming. When the fifth Dutch Reformed congregation in the Cape was established here, it became known as Zwartlands-kerk (Black Land Church) but was renamed Malmesbury in 1829. The town acquired municipal status in 1860.
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