Beaconsfield
Beaconsfield is a railway station in Sol Plaatjie, Frances Baard District Municipality, Northern Cape and has an elevation of 1,211 metres.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include McGregor Museum and Duggan-Cronin Gallery.
McGregor Museum
Museum
The McGregor Museum in Kimberley, South Africa, originally known as the Alexander McGregor Memorial Museum, is a multidisciplinary museum which serves Kimberley and the Northern Cape, established in 1907. McGregor Museum is situated 1½ km north of Beaconsfield.
Duggan-Cronin Gallery
Art gallery
Photo: Waitabout, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Duggan-Cronin Gallery, which is a satellite of the McGregor Museum in Kimberley, South Africa, houses in part the legacy in photographs and ethnographic artefacts of the photographer Alfred Martin Duggan-Cronin. Duggan-Cronin Gallery is situated 1½ km north of Beaconsfield.
Honoured Dead Memorial
The Honoured Dead Memorial is a provincial heritage site in Kimberley in the Northern Cape province of South Africa. It is situated at the meeting point of five roads, and commemorates those who died defending the city during the Siege of Kimberley in the Anglo-Boer War. Honoured Dead Memorial is situated 2 km northwest of Beaconsfield.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Beaconsfield and Kimberley.
Beaconsfield
Suburb
Beaconsfield is a suburb of Kimberley, South Africa, formerly known as Du Toit's Pan. Beaconsfield was a separate borough from Kimberley itself until its amalgamation with the latter as the City of Kimberley in 1912.
Kimberley
Kimberley is the capital of the Northern Cape Province of South Africa. Amongst other things, it is famous for its Big Hole, the world's largest hand-dug excavation that was created when thousands of people searched for diamonds at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries.
Beaconsfield
- Type: Railway station
- Categories: station and transportation
- Location: Sol Plaatjie, Frances Baard District Municipality, Northern Cape, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-28.76198° or 28° 45′ 43″ southLongitude
24.7839° or 24° 47′ 2″ eastElevation
1,211 metres (3,973 feet)Open location code
5G366QQM+6HOpenStreetMap ID
node 247327782OpenStreetMap feature
public_transport=stationOpenStreetMap feature
railway=stationGeoNames ID
1020675
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In Other Languages
“Beaconsfield” goes by many names.
- Russian: “Беконсфилд”
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