Notes on the Geography of South Africa: Swellendam 1: Houses: Photo 27 Hans Fransen is the expert on these places and has written extensively about them. Klippe Rivier, he says, traces its roots to a quitrent deed of 1740 morgen, about 3,500 acres. Call it a Boer-style homestead grant. It was registered in 1818, and the house was built by 1825. (The trellis and vines are a later addition.) Fransen calls Klippe Rivier "easily the finest house in the Overberg" (The Old Houses of the Cape, 1974). (The Overberg is one of the Western Cape's half-dozen districts or district municipalities.) View: tiny * small * medium * big * biggest Photo Size Back to South Africa: Swellendam 1: Houses chapter Short link for this page: http://www.greatmirror.com?justpic=37237

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