Malmesbury, Western Cape

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Malmesbury lies in an area known as the Swartland (‘black land’) due to the rich dark soil that becomes visible when the vast golden wheat fields are ploughed. Settlers were encouraged to make their home here because of a tepid sulphur chloride mineral spring that was renowned for curing rheumatism.

It no longer attracts the ailing, perhaps because more pleasant, hotter springs are found at nearby Montagu.

Malmesbury is a town in the Western Cape

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Coordinates: 33°27′S 18°44′E

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