Greyton

Greyton is a small town in the Overberg area in the Western Cape, South Africa.

Key facts

Settlement.name: Greyton
Settlement.image_caption: Top:The 5 way stop at the centre of town, Old Posthouse (left), Old Potter's Inn (right)
Settlement.pushpin_map: South Africa Western Cape#South Africa
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_name: South Africa
Settlement.subdivision_type1: Province
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Western Cape
Settlement.subdivision_type2: District
Settlement.subdivision_name2: Overberg
Settlement.subdivision_type3: Municipality
Settlement.subdivision_name3: Theewaterskloof
Settlement.subdivision_type4: Main Place
Settlement.established_title: Established
Settlement.leader_title: Councillor
Settlement.area_total_km2: 2.89
Settlement.population_total: 2780
Settlement.population_as_of: 2011
Settlement.population_density_km2: auto

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Wikidata facts

Image: Greyton CBD.JPG
Dialing code: 028

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inception: 1854-01-01
postal code: 7233
Commons category: Greyton

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Early history
Weltevreden farm
Agricultural village
Village layout
Surviving features
Village changes
Economy
Group Areas Act
Modern Greyton
References
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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.