Essenwood
Essenwood is a central suburb of Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, approximately 3 kilometres north-west of the city centre. It is administered by the eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality, the municipality governing Durban and its surrounding suburbs.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Suburb
- Description: place in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
- Also known as: “Essenwood, Durban”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Greyville Racecourse and Durban Botanic Gardens.
Greyville Racecourse
Stadium
Hollywoodbets Greyville Racecourse is a Thoroughbred horse race track in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The 2,800 metre pear-shaped turf track consists of several gradient features: it is run uphill from the 2,400 metre mark to the 1,800 metre mark, after which it slopes gently downward for approximately the next 800 metres then uphill again into the nearly flat 500 metre homestretch.
Durban Botanic Gardens
Garden
Photo: Michaelwild, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Durban Botanic Gardens is situated in the city of Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It is Durban's oldest public institution and Africa's oldest surviving botanical gardens. The gardens cover an area of 15 hectares in a subtropical climate.
Jameson Park and Rose Garden
Park
Jameson Park and Rose Garden is a rose garden located in Durban, South Africa. Once being a pineapple plantation, it currently possesses about 200 species of roses which are prominent in the South African Spring months of September to November.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Overport and Windermere.
Overport
Suburb
Overport is a hilly residential area in Durban, South Africa. The name Overport is commonly used to refer to the suburbs of Overport, Sydenham, part of Sparks and parts of Essenwood; with the part of Sydenham west of Brickfield Road, and north of Sparks Road, usually called Asherville rather than Overport.
Windermere
Suburb
Photo: Simisa, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Windermere is a suburb in the heart of Durban, South Africa, situated approximately 2 kilometres north of the city centre. The area includes the restaurant district of Florida Road and the factory shop district of Stamford Hill Road.
Musgrave
Suburb
Musgrave is a central suburb of Durban, South Africa. It is situated inland and north-west of the Durban CBD, and forms part of the suburban belt known as the Berea.
Essenwood
- Categories: human-geographic territorial entity and locality
- Location: Ethekwini, eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-29.83719° or 29° 50′ 14″ southLongitude
31.00696° or 31° 0′ 25″ eastElevation
125 metres (410 feet)Open location code
5G2H5274+4QOpenStreetMap ID
way 727122211OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Turkish—“Essenwood” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Essenwood, Durban”
- Pedi: “Essenwood, Durban”
- Turkish: “Essenwood”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Essenwood and Palm Ridge.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Hollywoodbets Greyville Racecourse and The Atrium Jamaat Khana.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Essenwood”. Photo: P.Lindgren, CC BY-SA 3.0.