Norwood
Norwood is a suburb of Cape Town, in the Western Cape province of South Africa.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Suburb
- Description: place in Western Cape, South Africa
- Also known as: “Norwood, Western Cape”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Tygerberg Hospital and Bonteheuwel.
Tygerberg Hospital
Hospital
Tygerberg Hospital is a tertiary public hospital located in Parow. The hospital was officially opened in 1976 and is the largest district general hospital in the Western Cape and the second largest hospital in South Africa, with the capacity for 1899 beds. Tygerberg Hospital is situated 3½ km east of Norwood.
Bonteheuwel
Railway station
Photo: Lantus, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bonteheuwel is a railway station, which is situated 3 km southwest of Norwood.
Fairbairn College
School
Fairbairn College is a public, co-educational high school in Goodwood near Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa. Fairbairn College is situated 3½ km northwest of Norwood.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ruyterwacht and Bishop Lavis.
Ruyterwacht
Suburb
Ruyterwacht is a northern suburb of Cape Town, South Africa, bordering the industrial area of Epping and the formerly Cape Coloured neighborhood of Elsie's River as well as the GrandWest Casino. Ruyterwacht is situated 2½ km west of Norwood.
Bishop Lavis
Suburb
Bishop Lavis is a suburb of Cape Town, located 15 kilometres east of the city centre near Cape Town International Airport. It had, as of 2001, a population of 44,419 people, of whom 97% described themselves as Coloured, and 90% spoke Afrikaans while 9% spoke English. Bishop Lavis is situated 2½ km south of Norwood.
Parow
Town
Photo: Simisa, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Parow is the suburb of the City of Cape Town in the Western Cape, South Africa and a Northern Suburb of the City of Cape Town Metropolitan Municipality founded by Johann Heinrich Ferdinand Parow who arrived in the locality in 1865. Parow is situated 2½ km north of Norwood.
Norwood
- Categories: neighborhood and locality
- Location: City of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-33.92583° or 33° 55′ 33″ southLongitude
18.57806° or 18° 34′ 41″ eastElevation
34 metres (112 feet)Open location code
4FRW3HFH+M6OpenStreetMap ID
node 262721718OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Turkish—“Norwood” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Norwood, Western Cape”
- Turkish: “Norwood”
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