Goodwood is a suburb of

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in the

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and is situated in the

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region of the

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. It is 10 kilometres from

and accessible from the N1, N7 and N2 highways. The town was established in 1905 and named after

Goodwood Racecourse Goodwood Racecourse is a horse-racing track five miles north of Chichester, West Sussex, in England controlled by the family of the Duke of Richmond, whose seat is nearby Goodwood House. It hosts the annual Glorious Goodwood meeting in l ...

in England as the founders intended to make it a racing centre. A course was actually constructed, but after only one meeting it was abandoned. The first

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was built in 1905, and today there are five within the municipal area. Three of them lie on the

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line: Goodwood, Vasco and Elsies River. It also has Monte Vista and Acasia Park stations which are on the secondary line between Cape Town and Bellville.

Schools

Koos Sadie Primary School, a dual medium coeducational primary school.
Goodwood Park
a dual-medium coeducational primary school

De Vrijzee Primary School, a dual medium coeducational primary school.
JG Meiring High School
an English-medium coeducational high school, this school is now built on the spot where the racecourse was built *

Fairbairn College Fairbairn College is a state school, public, co-educational high school in Goodwood, Cape Town, Goodwood near Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa. History The Goodwood/Vasco English-medium High School was founded on 1 October 1976 with ...

, an English-medium coeducational high school
Hoërskool President
a dual-medium coeducational high school

Coat of arms

Goodwood was a municipality in its own right from 1938 to 1996. In 1939, the council adopted a pseudo-heraldic "coat of arms" depicting an aeroplane, an ox-wagon, and a horse jumping over a fence.Rosenthal, E. (1980) ''Goodwood and its Story''. It replaced this device with a proper coat of arms, designed by

Ivan Mitford-Barberton Ivan Mitford-Barberton (1896–1976) was a South African sculptor, writer and authority on heraldry. Early life and education Mitford-Barberton was born in Somerset East, in Cape Colony, in 1896. He was a descendant of several 1820 Settler ...

, in 1958. The council registered the arms with the Cape Provincial Administration in May 1959Cape of Good Hope ''Official Gazette'' 2969 (1 May 1959). and at the Bureau of Heraldry in August 1993.National Archives of South Africa : Data of the Bureau of Heraldry
/ref> The arms were : ''Argent, on a fess Gules, between in chief four trees with six leaves each and in base three pallets, Sable, the central pallet surmounted by a cogwheel counterchanged, a leopard passant, Argent and Sable''. In layman's terms : a silver shield displaying, from top to bottom, a row of four black trees with six leaves each, a red horizontal stripe displaying a leopard, and three black vertical stripes with a cogwheel on the centre stripe. The crest was a palamino unicorn issuing from a golden mural crown and holding a red disc between its forelegs, and the motto was ''Procedo''.

Schools

Coat of arms

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