Aberfeldy, Free State

Aberfeldy
Aberfeldy

 Aberfeldy shown within Free State

Coordinates: 28°12′54″S 28°49′30″E / 28.215°S 28.825°E / -28.215; 28.825Coordinates: 28°12′54″S 28°49′30″E / 28.215°S 28.825°E / -28.215; 28.825
Country South Africa
Province Free State
District Thabo Mofutsanyane
Municipality Maluti-a-Phofung

Aberfeldy is a small settlement near Phuthaditjhaba, surrounded by agricultural land and game farms.[1]

The farm Aberfeldy in the Orange Free State had a post office known as Elandsrivierbrug; when the when the railway reached the farm in 1902 the new Orange River Colony administration preferred "Aberfeldy", Scottish in origin, to the previous Afrikaans name. By 1905 the post office name was Anglicised into Elands River Bridge.[2]

References

  1. "Towns included in the". Grasslands Meander. Retrieved 29 August 2014.
  2. African Research & Documentation. African Studies Association of the UK. 2000. p. 51.
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