Rossmore
Rossmore is a suburb of Johannesburg, around 5 km northwest of City Hall. It borders Langlaagte to the north and Homestead Park. The name comes from the village of Paarlshoop, the oldest private township on the Witwatersrand.- Type: Suburb
- Description: place in Gauteng, South Africa
- Also known as: “Rossmore, Johannesburg”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Helen Joseph Hospital and Brixton Tower.
Helen Joseph Hospital
Hospital
Helen Joseph Hospital is a public hospital based in Auckland Park, Johannesburg, South Africa. Prior to 1997, it was known as the J.G. Strijdom Hospital. As a teaching hospital, its affiliated to the University of Witwatersrand's Medical School.
Brixton Tower
Tower
Photo: NJR ZA, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Sentech Tower, previously named the Albert Hertzog Tower and commonly known as the Brixton Tower, is a 237-metre-high concrete television tower in the Brixton suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa, near the top of the Brixton Ridge.
Melville
Supermarket
Photo: fiverlocker, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Melville is a bohemian suburb of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa. It is the location of many restaurants and taverns, which are mostly frequented by students from the nearby University of Johannesburg, located in Auckland Park, and the University of the Witwatersrand, located in Braamfontein.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Westdene and Richmond.
Westdene
Suburb
Westdene is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. Westdene lies between the historic suburb of Sophiatown and Melville with the Melville Koppies nature reserve to the north of the suburb.
Richmond
Neighborhood
Richmond is a small, centrally located suburb in Johannesburg whose Edwardian, Art Deco and Mid Century Modern houses are being both gentrified and torn down.
Sophiatown
Suburb
Photo: ShiningWolf, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sophiatown, also known as Sof'town or Kofifi, is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. Sophiatown was a poor multi-racial area and a black cultural hub that was destroyed under apartheid.
Rossmore
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: City of Johannesburg, City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, Gauteng, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-26.18639° or 26° 11′ 11″ southLongitude
27.99667° or 27° 59′ 48″ eastElevation
1,741 metres (5,712 feet)Open location code
5G59RX7W+CMOpenStreetMap ID
node 262715698OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Turkish—“Rossmore” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Rossmore”
- Dutch: “Rossmore, Johannesburg”
- Turkish: “Rossmore”
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