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Explore Townsend Estate
The district Townsend Estate of in City of Cape Town (Western Cape) is located in South Africa about 807 mi south-west of Pretoria, the country's capital.
If you need a place to sleep, we compiled a list of available hotels close to the map centre further down the page.
Depending on your travel schedule, you might want to pay a visit to some of the following locations: Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Paarl, Malmesbury and Moorreesburg. To further explore this place, just scroll down and browse the available info.
Local weather forecast
Todays Local Weather Conditions & Forecast: 23°C / 73 °F
Morning Temperature | 16°C / 60 °F |
Evening Temperature | 19°C / 66 °F |
Night Temperature | 17°C / 62 °F |
Chance of rainfall | 0% |
Air Humidity | 53% |
Air Pressure | 1013 hPa |
Wind Speed | Fresh Breeze with 14 km/h (8 mph) from North |
Cloud Conditions | Clear sky, covering 1% of sky |
General Conditions | Sky is clear |
Saturday, 16th of November 2024
21°C (70 °F)
17°C (62 °F)
Sky is clear, moderate breeze, clear sky.
Sunday, 17th of November 2024
23°C (73 °F)
17°C (62 °F)
Sky is clear, gentle breeze, clear sky.
Monday, 18th of November 2024
19°C (66 °F)
16°C (61 °F)
Broken clouds, moderate breeze.
Hotels and Places to Stay
EHL House
Cotswold House
Lagoon Beach Hotel
Sunstays Lagoon Beach
Island Club Hotel & Apartments
Cape Town Marriott Hotel Crystal Towers
Colosseum Luxury
Circa
51 on Forest Drive
7 Church Street Luxury Guest House
Videos from this area
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Century City Canoe Club Time Trial 201-09-16
Weekly time trial on the cleanest waterways in Cape Town.
Electric Bikes South Africa
Electric Bikes By Chilled Squirrel. Cape Town, South Africa. Available Nationwide. E-bike Workshop in Century City, Canal Walk at City Cycles . Schwinn, Giant E-, GT , Silverback , Scott ,...
Robert Miller presents Fundamentals Of Lighting at Studio22
Studio22 recently hosted a lighting workshop. This short clip shows some of the activity of the evening event. Robert Miller presented "Fundamentals of Lighting" in Cube Studio at Studio22...
Bird ringing at Intaka Island
Just some footage of bird ringing at Intaka Island at Century City, Cape Town. October 2011.
VW Golf Mk7 TDI consumption
Distance: +- 29km Temp: +- 21°C Since start: 3.8l/100km Location: Cape Town Route: De Villiers Dr, Faitrees Rd, Eversdal Rd, Old Oak Rd, N1, N7, Plattekloof Rd, Koeberg Rd, Blaauwberg Rd ...
Berg Pedal Go Karts
Berg Toys South Africa is the sole importer of all BERG Toys products from the Netherlands. This is currently a small track at Ratanga Junction in Cape Town. This track is in the process of...
JOHN CAUDWELL: SETTING 9K ALTITUDE RECORD IN LIGHTNING FIGHTER JET, CANOPY DOWN AND TAXI.
Philanthropist and businessman John Caudwell won an auction lot to be a passenger in a former RAF Lightning fighter jet as an attempt was made to set a world record to climb to 9000 metres...
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Attractions and noteworthy things
Distances are based on the centre of the city/town and sightseeing location. This list contains brief abstracts about monuments, holiday activities, national parcs, museums, organisations and more from the area as well as interesting facts about the region itself. Where available, you'll find the corresponding homepage. Otherwise the related wikipedia article.
Canal Walk
Canal Walk is a shopping centre in Cape Town, South Africa, that opened in 2000 and was built around a series of canals. It has a total retail area of 141,000-square-metre . The centre forms the heart of a mixed-use development known as Century City, which includes office blocks, residential areas and the Ratanga Junction theme park.
South African Astronomical Observatory
South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO) is the national center for optical and infrared astronomy in South Africa. It was established in 1972. The observatory is run by the National Research Foundation of South Africa. The facility's function is to conduct research in astronomy and astrophysics. The primary telescopes are located in Sutherland, which is 370 kilometres from Observatory, Cape Town, which is where the headquarters is located.
AFDA, The South African School of Motion Picture Medium and Live Performance
AFDA the South African School of Motion Picture Medium and Live Performance is a film school located on campuses in Auckland Park, Johannesburg, and Observatory, Cape Town, South Africa. AFDA is South Africa's only full member of CILECT and therefore all AFDA degrees are recognized internationally.
International Peace University of South Africa
International Peace University of South Africa was formed when the Islamic College of Southern Africa (ICOSA) and Darul Arqam Islamic Institute (DAII) merged.
Elsieskraal River
The Elsieskraal River is a small river that flows through the Cape Town metropolitan area, in South Africa. It rises in the Tygerberg Hills and flows in a generally south westerly direction to its confluence with the Black River just south of Pinelands. 65% of the course of the Elsieskraal River has been canalised to prevent flooding. Its catchment is part of the Central Management Area of the City of Cape Town.
Athlone Stadium
Athlone Stadium is a stadium in Athlone on the Cape Flats in Cape Town, South Africa. It is used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of Santos Cape Town. The stadium holds 30,000 people and was built in 1972. The stadium was upgraded in the lead up to the 2010 FIFA World Cup with the intention of using it as a training venue. The estimated cost of the upgrade was R297 million.
Liesbeek River
The Liesbeek River (also spelt Liesbeeck) is a river in Cape Town in South Africa. It is named after a small river in Holland. The first "free burghers" of the Dutch East India Company were granted land to farm along the river in 1657, shortly after the first Dutch settlers arrived in the Cape. The river was originally called the Amstel or Versse Rivier. It is the first river that Jan Van Riebeeck named.
St. George's Grammar School (Cape Town)
St. George's Grammar School is a private co-educational day school located in Mowbray, a suburb of Cape Town, South Africa. It was historically the cathedral school attached to St. George's Cathedral, having been founded in 1848 by Robert Gray, the first Anglican Bishop of Cape Town. St. George's claims to be the oldest independent school in South Africa.
Observatory, Cape Town
Observatory is a suburb in Cape Town, South Africa, bordered by Mowbray to the south, and Salt River to the north. The area is best known as student neighbourhood, most of whom attend the University of Cape Town located close by, and for being the home of the South African Astronomical Observatory headquarters as well as Groote Schuur Hospital.
Norwood, Western Cape
Norwood is a suburb of Cape Town, in the Western Cape province of South Africa.
MTN Sciencentre
The MTN Sciencentre is a not-for-profit science centre in Cape Town, South Africa. It forms part of a wide range of non-classroom initiatives to improve the quality of science understanding and science literacy in South Africa. Until early 2010, the centre was located in the Canal Walk shopping mall. It will reopen in Observatory later in 2010. The MTN Sciencentre's Ericsson cell phone is in the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's largest working cell phone.
Milnerton High School
Milnerton High School is a state school in the suburb of Milnerton in Cape Town, South Africa. It was founded in 1959.
Fairbairn College
Fairbairn College is a public, co-educational high school in the suburb of Goodwood in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa.
N2 Gateway
The N2 Gateway Housing Pilot Project is a large housebuilding project under construction in Cape Town, South Africa. It has been labeled by the national government's former Housing Minister Lindiwe Sisulu as “the biggest housing project ever undertaken by any Government.
Colleges of Medicine of South Africa
The Colleges of Medicine of South Africa (CMSA) is the custodian of the quality of medical care in South Africa. It is unique in the world in that its 27 constituent Colleges represent all the disciplines of medicine and dentistry. One route to specialisation in South Africa, is via a "Fellowship" conferred by the College. See Medical education in South Africa; Dental degree: South Africa.
Cannons Creek Independent School
Cannons Creek Independent School, situated in Pinelands, Cape Town, South Africa was founded in January 1997 by Ms Carol Barhouch (now Booth) together with four teachers, Mrs Hazelmay Duncan, Kevin Wroth, Nicola du Plooy and Lesley Jacobson as a Primary co-educational English speaking Christian School. The School currently incorporates a primary school (Grade RR to 7) and a high school (Grades 8 to 12 writing WCED Matric exams).
Hugo Lambrechts Music Centre
Hugo Lambrechts Music Centre is a dedicated centre for the study of classical music for school-going pupils. Established in 1986, it is housed in one of the oldest school buildings in the northern suburbs of Cape Town.
Wingfield Aerodrome
Wingfield Aerodrome was first the Cape Town Municipal Aerodrome, then Air Force Station Wingfield under the SAAF, before being used as a Fleet Air Arm base by the Royal Navy. After World War II, the aerodrome reverted to being the municipal airport for a while. The history of Wingfield is synonymous with the history of flight in South Africa, including pioneering attempts at commercial aviation.
Salt River railway station
Salt River railway station is a Metrorail railway station in Salt River, Cape Town. It is the second station from the Cape Town terminus on the old main line to Bellville, and the junction where the Southern Line branches from the main line. Services on all of Metrorail's lines pass through the station. The station has three island platforms and one side platform, serving a total of seven tracks. The station building is located on Foundry Street to the south of the tracks.
Mutual railway station
Mutual railway station is a Metrorail commuter rail station located between the suburbs of Maitland and Pinelands in Cape Town, South Africa. It is situated next to the South African headquarters of the Old Mutual, from which it takes its name. Mutual is a particularly busy station because it is the junction at which the Central Line towards Mitchell's Plain and Khayelitsha diverges from the Northern Line main line to Bellville.
Observatory railway station
Observatory railway station is a Metrorail station serving the suburb of Observatory in Cape Town. It is served by trains on the Southern Line. The station is located under the Station Road bridge. It has two tracks served by two side platforms, connected by pedestrian subways.
Range High School (Cape Town)
Range High School is an Afrikaans medium school in Matroosfontein, Western Cape, South Africa.
NNK Rugby Stadium
NNK Rugby Stadium is a multi-use stadium, situated in the Parow suburb of Cape Town, at the Western Cape Province in South Africa. Previously it was mostly used for rugby matches. Since September 2010, where the stadium became the new home venue for the National First Division club FC Cape Town, it has mainly been used to host football matches.
Bosmansdam High School
Bosmansdam High School was founded in 1971 in Bothasig, a suburb of Cape Town, and is a dual medium Afrikaans and English school. The school is state assisted and therefore, like most other schools in South Africa, it charges a set amount of money for its services. The school offers a wide variety of sporting and cultural activities.
Pinelands High School
Pinelands High School is a public school situated in Forest Drive, Pinelands in the city of Cape Town, South Africa. It was opened in July 1952 and the founding principal was Mr Jack Kent. The school now has about 950 students. In 2004, the school provided filming locations for the motion picture Ask the Dust, with the sets built to simulate Los Angeles in the 1930s. The school originally had a House System, which was scrapped some years after its formation.