Doveton Road Blue Plaque
Doveton Road Blue Plaque is a memorial in City of Johannesburg, Gauteng. Doveton Road Blue Plaque is situated nearby to the historic building Endstead, as well as near the suburb Parktown.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Endstead and Deutsche Internationale Schule Johannesburg.
Endstead
Historic building
Endstead is a historic house in Parktown, Johannesburg, South Africa built in 1903 by Ernest Willmot Sloper for his own use. The original property has been sub-divided; the only major changes to the house have been the addition of a double garage by Tony… Endstead is situated 170 metres northwest of Doveton Road Blue Plaque.
Deutsche Internationale Schule Johannesburg
School
The Deutsche Internationale Schule Johannesburg is a German international school in Auckland Park, Johannesburg. Founded in 1890, the DSJ is one of the oldest schools in the city and one of the largest German schools on the African continent. Deutsche Internationale Schule Johannesburg is situated 680 metres west of Doveton Road Blue Plaque.
Johannesburg Planetarium
Planetarium
Photo: Soul Train, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Johannesburg Planetarium is a planetarium owned by the University of the Witwatersrand, located on the University's East Campus in Braamfontein, Johannesburg. It was the first full-sized planetarium in Africa, and the second in the southern hemisphere. Johannesburg Planetarium is situated 1 km south of Doveton Road Blue Plaque.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Parktown and Richmond.
Parktown
Suburb
Photo: Paul venter, Public domain.
Parktown is a wealthy suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa, and is the first suburb north of the inner city. It is affectionately known as one of the Parks, others including Parkview, Parkwood, Westcliff, Parktown North, Parkhurst and Forest Town.
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.
Braamfontein
Suburb
Braamfontein is a central suburb of Johannesburg, in South Africa, seat of the Constitutional Court of South Africa and some of South Africa's major corporations such as Liberty Holdings Limited, JD Group, Sappi, and Bidvest Bank and Hollard.
Doveton Road Blue Plaque
- Type: Memorial
- Inscription: “‘The road is named after Major David Edwin Doveton, manager of Village Main Reef Gold Mine, who served with the Imperial Light Horse Regiment. On 14 February 1900 Doveton died of wounds received at Wagon Hill during the Siege of Ladysmith.’”
- Category: historic site
- Location: City of Johannesburg, City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, Gauteng, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-26.17892° or 26° 10′ 44″ southLongitude
28.0255° or 28° 1′ 32″ eastOpen location code
5G5CR2CG+C5OpenStreetMap ID
node 13737245681OpenStreetMap feature
historic=memorial
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