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Kirkwood

Kirkwood

Find property for sale in Kirkwood, a town located in South Africa’s Eastern Cape province that lies about 80kms from the Indian Ocean and 100m above sea level. Governor of the Cape Colony, Sir John Francis Cradock gave the first farms in the Sundays River Valley to the leaders of successful burger commandos after they won victories in the frontier wars in 1811-1812. The properties for sale in Kirkwood today include smallholdings and commercial farms, as well as residential houses and homes.

The town owes its name to an auctioneer from Port Elizabeth, James Somers Kirkwood who arrived in the area in 1877 to auction off a farm, which he ultimately bought himself. He had a vision of transforming the overgrown valley into irrigated fields with fruit trees and delivering the produce via barges along the river to Port Elizabeth. Although ahead of his time, those who buy property<