Leipoldtville is a town in
Cederberg Local Municipality in the
Western Cape
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province of
South Africa
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.
It is located West-Southwest of
Clanwilliam and Southeast of
Lambert's Bay. The town is named after the Reverend C F Leipoldt, a
Dutch Reformed minister in Clanwilliam from 1884 to 1910 and father of the
Afrikaans
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poet
C. Louis Leipoldt.
References
{{West Coast District Municipality
Populated places in the Cederberg Local Municipality
Populated places established in 1905
1905 establishments in the Cape Colony