Rosmead is a village 12 km east of
Middelburg Middelburg may refer to:
Places and jurisdictions Europe
* Middelburg, Zeeland, the capital city of the province of Zeeland, southwestern Netherlands
** Roman Catholic Diocese of Middelburg, a former Catholic diocese with its see in the Zeeland ...
and 75 km west-south-west of
Steynsburg
Steynsburg is a small town in the Walter Sisulu Local Municipality of the Joe Gqabi District Municipality, Eastern Cape province of South Africa. Steynsburg is located on the intersection of the R56 and R390.
The town lies south-west of Burg ...
. It was founded in 1880 and at first named Middelburg Road, but renamed in 1883 after Sir
Hercules George Robinson, Lord Rosmead (1824–1897), who was
Governor of the Cape Colony
This article lists the governors of British South African colonies, including the colonial prime ministers. It encompasses the period from 1797 to 1910, when present-day South Africa was divided into four British colonies namely: Cape Colony (p ...
from 1880 to 1889.
References
Populated places in the Inxuba Yethemba Local Municipality
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