Cookhouse
A cookhouse is a small building where cooking takes place. Often found at remote work camps, they complemented the bunkhouse and were usually found on ranches that employed cowboys, or loggers in a logging camp.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Locality with 6,840 residents
- Description: small building where cooking takes place
- Also known as: “cook house”, “cookhouse”, and “Kookhuis”
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Cookhouse
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Photo: Andre Kritzinger, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Cookhouse is a small village located in Eastern Cape province, South Africa, some 170 kilometres north of Port Elizabeth and 24 kilometres east of Somerset East, on the west bank of the Great Fish River.
Cookhouse
Latitude
-32.74322° or 32° 44′ 36″ southLongitude
25.80037° or 25° 48′ 1″ eastPopulation
6,840Elevation
601 metres (1,972 feet)Open location code
4GV77R42+P4GeoNames ID
1012807Wikidata ID
Q105303032
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to German—“Cookhouse” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “kookgebouw”
- Dutch: “kookhuis”
- German: “Kochhaus”
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