Greyton
Sign in to saveGreyton is a small town in the Overberg area in the Western Cape, South Africa.
Key facts
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- Greyton
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- Top:The 5 way stop at the centre of town, Old Posthouse (left), Old Potter's Inn (right)
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- South Africa Western Cape#South Africa
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- Country
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- South Africa
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- Province
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- Western Cape
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- District
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- Overberg
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- Municipality
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- Theewaterskloof
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- Main Place
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- Established
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- Councillor
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 2.89
- Settlement.population_total
- 2780
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2011
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Article
11 sectionsContents
- Early history
- Weltevreden farm
- Agricultural village
- Village layout
- Surviving features
- Village changes
- Economy
- Group Areas Act
- Modern Greyton
- References
- External links
Greyton is a small town in the Overberg area in the Western Cape, South Africa.
== Early history == thumb|Sir George Grey Before Greyton was established in 1854, the verdant plains and forested ravines of the area were home to the Hessequas Khoikhoi tribe who had their kraals near the Gobos river, which they named after their ancestral chief. Their many thousands of cattle and sheep were the reason why Ensign Schriver of the Castle of Good Hope was sent here in the late 1600s to barter with their head man, Captain Stoffel Koekson. So rich did Koekson become from this bartering that he eventually took his people to live in the Boschmanskloof, where he built them proper mud-brick houses, the foundations of which still lie under the old houses of Boschmanskloof today.