Meadowridge

Meadowridge
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Location within Cape Town Meadowridge
Coordinates: 34°2′S 18°27′E / 34.033°S 18.450°E / -34.033; 18.450Coordinates: 34°2′S 18°27′E / 34.033°S 18.450°E / -34.033; 18.450
Country	South Africa
Province	Western Cape
Municipality	City of Cape Town
Main Place	Cape Town
Area^[1]
• Total	1.34 km² (0.52 sq mi)
Population (2011)^[1]
• Total	2,519
• Density	1,900/km² (4,900/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011)^[1]
• Black African	5.2%
• Coloured	5.7%
• Indian/Asian	1.0%
• White	85.9%
• Other	2.3%
First languages (2011)^[1]
• English	90.1%
• Afrikaans	8.3%
• Other	1.6%
Postal code (street)	7806
Area code	021

Meadowridge is a suburb in Cape Town, South Africa. It is the second Garden City in Cape Town and was officially opened on 23 March 1955.

Local shopping centres are Meadowridge Park 'n Shop and Meadowridge Shopping Centre (the first shopping centre). Nearby schools are Bergvliet Primary School, Sweet Valley Primary School and Bergvliet High School. Close by is the local football club, Meadowridge AFC.

Meadowridge is home to the Meadowridge Library, one of Cape Town's top circulating libraries, which serves Meadowridge and surrounding neighborhoods.

In years gone by the horse riding fraternity, notably Judge Blackwell's daughter used to bring her riding classes to the meadow just above the Ladies Mile circle, and have them gallop all the way to the council depot at the top before crossing over to Kreuplebosch to gallop through the vineyards.

The Meadowridge Sports Association, chaired for many years by Guy Taylor is the custodian of the football fields, the forest and the building currently occupied by the Sunny Skies nursery school.

References

1 2 3 4 "Sub Place Meadowridge". Census 2011.

Communities of City of Cape Town Metropolitan Municipality, Western Cape

Seat: Cape Town

Cape Flats	Athlone Crawford Gugulethu Hanover Park Heideveld Joe Slovo Kenwyn Lansdowne Manenberg Nyanga Ottery Philippi Rondebosch East Strandfontein Wetton

Helderberg	Faure Gordon's Bay Lwandle Macassar Parel Vallei Sir Lowry's Pass Village Somerset West Strand

Mitchells Plain Khayelitsha	Blue Downs Crossroads Eerste River Khayelitsha Kuils River Mfuleni Mitchell's Plain QQ Section

Northern	Brackenfell Durbanville Fisantekraal Kensington Kraaifontein Panorama Philadelphia Wallacedene

South Peninsula	Bergvliet Bishopscourt Capri Village Claremont Clovelly Constantia Da Gama Park Diep River Fish Hoek Glencairn Grassy Park Harfield Village Heathfield Hout Bay Imizamo Yethu Kalk Bay Kenilworth Kommetjie Llandudno Lotus River Masiphumelele Meadowridge Mowbray Muizenberg Newlands Noordhoek Ocean View Plumstead Retreat Rondebosch Rosebank Scarborough Simon's Town St James Southern Suburbs Steenberg Tokai Wynberg

Table Bay	Bakoven Bantry Bay Bo-Kaap Camps Bay Cape Town Clifton De Waterkant Devil's Peak Estate District Six Epping Foreshore Fresnaye Gardens Goodwood Green Point Higgovale Langa Maitland Mouille Point Ndabeni Nomzamo Observatory Oranjezicht Pinelands Robben Island Salt River Schotsche Kloof Sea Point Tamboerskloof Thornton Three Anchor Bay University Estate Vredehoek Walmer Estate Woodstock Zonnebloem

Tygerberg	Belhar Bellville Bishop Lavis Bonteheuwel Bothasig Delft (Blikkiesdorp) Edgemead Elsie's River Monte Vista Norwood Parow Tygerberg

Blaauwberg	Atlantis Bloubergstrand Century City Dunoon Joe Slovo Park Mamre Melkbosstrand Milnerton Parklands Table View

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