Wattville

Wattville is a township south of Benoni in Ekurhuleni Metropolitan municipality, Gauteng, South Africa. It was established in 1941, and by 1948, 400 houses were built on 34 hectares.

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Places of Interest

Highlights include Willowmoore Park.

Willowmoore Park

Sports venue

Willowmoore Park is a multi-purpose stadium in Benoni, South Africa. It is currently used mostly for cricket matches and hosted two matches during the 2003 Cricket World Cup. The stadium holds 20,000 people. It opened in 1924. Willowmoore Park is situated 3½ km northeast of Wattville.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Benoni and Boksburg.

Benoni

Town

Photo: PretoriaTravel, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Ekurhuleni is the eastern part of the Gauteng province. It is part of the Johannesburg metropolitan area, and includes suburbs such as Modderfontein, Greenstone, Edenvale, Bedfordview, Benoni, Germiston, Springs, Boksburg and Brakpan. Benoni is situated 3½ km north of Wattville.

Boksburg

Town

Photo: Simisa, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Boksburg is a city on the East Rand of Gauteng province of South Africa. Gold was discovered in Boksburg in 1887. Boksburg was named after the State Secretary of the South African Republic, W. Boksburg is situated 4½ km west of Wattville.

Brakpan

Town

Photo: Leo za1, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Brakpan is a mining town on the East Rand of Gauteng, South Africa, approximately 38 kilometres east of Johannesburg. Brakpan is situated 7 km east of Wattville.

Wattville

Type: Suburb
Description: place in Gauteng, South Africa
Categories: human settlement and locality
Location: Ekurhuleni, Gauteng, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude

-26.22472° or 26° 13′ 29″ south

Longitude

28.30222° or 28° 18′ 8″ east

Elevation

1,654 metres (5,427 feet)

Open location code

5G5CQ8G2+4V

OpenStreetMap ID

node 262718562

OpenStreetMap feature

place=suburb

GeoNames ID

11204433

Wikidata ID

Q15975633

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Wattville” goes by many names.

Afrikaans: “Wattville”
Estonian: “Wattville”
French: “Wattville”
German: “Wattville”
Irish: “Wattville”
Pedi: “Wattville”
Spanish: “Wattville”
Turkish: “Wattville”
Xhosa: “Wattville”
Zulu: “Wattville”

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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 “Wattville”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.