Crawford Cape Town

Crawford is a suburb of Cape Town, South Africa, located to the east of the City Centre on the Cape Flats to the south of the N2 highway. The suburb is surrounded by the suburbs of Lansdowne, Rondebosch East, Athlone, Belthorn Estate, Rylands, and Belgravia. The main roads through the area are Jan Smuts Drive and Turf Hall Road linking to the M5. T…
Crawford is a suburb of Cape Town, South Africa, located to the east of the City Centre on the Cape Flats to the south of the N2 highway. The suburb is surrounded by the suburbs of Lansdowne, Rondebosch East, Athlone, Belthorn Estate, Rylands, and Belgravia. The main roads through the area are Jan Smuts Drive and Turf Hall Road linking to the M5. Thornton Road was for many years the main thoroughfare for this suburb and a hotbed for anti-apartheid activity in 1976 and 1985. Thornton Road is the location of the Trojan Horse Memorial in honour of those killed in 1985. Crawford is served by a railway station of the same name on the Cape Flats Line.
  • Country: South Africa
  • Province: Western Cape
  • Municipality: City of Cape Town
  • Postal code (street): 7770
  • PO box: 7780
  • Area code: 021
  • Time zone: UTC+2 (SAST)
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