Beaconsfield
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Suburb
- Description: human settlement in South Africa
- Also known as: “Beaconfield” and “Beaconsfield, Kimberley”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Duggan-Cronin Gallery and McGregor Museum.
Duggan-Cronin Gallery
Museum
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.
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.
De Beers Diamond Oval
Sports venue
The De Beers Diamond Oval is a cricket stadium in Kimberley, Northern Cape, South Africa. It opened in 1973 and has a capacity of 11,000. It is currently used mostly for cricket matches and is the home venue of both the VKB Knights, in the Sunfoil Series, and Northern Cape, in the CSA Provincial Competitions.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kimberley.
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
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Sol Plaatjie, Frances Baard District Municipality, Northern Cape, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-28.75154° or 28° 45′ 6″ southLongitude
24.78841° or 24° 47′ 18″ eastElevation
1,225 metres (4,019 feet)United Nations Location Code
ZA BEAOpen location code
5G366QXQ+99OpenStreetMap ID
node 262719147OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
1020676Wikidata ID
Q15975744
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Urdu—“Beaconsfield” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Beaconsfield”
- Pedi: “Beaconsfield, Kimberley”
- Russian: “Беконсфилд”
- Russian: “Биконсфильд (город)”
- Russian: “Биконсфильд (Кимберли)”
- Russian: “Биконсфильд”
- Urdu: “بیکنزفیلڈ، کمبرلے”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Minerva Gardens and Beaconsfield.
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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 “Beaconsfield”. Photo: Amrum, CC BY 3.0.