Ahrens is a railway stop in

KwaZulu-Natal KwaZulu-Natal (, also referred to as KZN and known as "the garden province") is a province of South Africa that was created in 1994 when the Zulu bantustan of KwaZulu ("Place of the Zulu" in Zulu) and Natal Province were merged. It is locate ...

, South Africa, 16 km west of Greytown, en route to Kranskop. The railway stop is named after Wilhelm Ahrens, from 1880 to 1906 headmaster of the

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school at

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, 4 km northeast from here.Raper, Peter Edmund. 2004. ''New Dictionary of South African Place Names''. Johannesburg & Cape Town: Jonathan Ball Publishers.

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Populated places in the Umvoti Local Municipality {{KwaZuluNatal-geo-stub