New Hanover (K 12)

Name: New Hanover

New Hanover is a small town in the Natal Midlands of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa which was established in the 1850s.

That the village of New Hanover lies halfway between the province’s capital and the farming centre of Greytown is no accident. It was established in the 1850s by families of German and British descent and became a coaching stop, a day’s journey from either end. Weary travellers rested jolted bodies and wetted dust-parched throats at the Travellers Rest inn, known for many years less romantically as the New Hanover Hotel and recently lovingly restored and renamed The Travellers Rest. In the mid-nineteenth century the village of York about eight kilometres to the west was bigger and more thriving, having been settled by pioneers from Yorkshire, England. But when the railway companies surveyed the area for their line from the capital to Greytown, the burgers of York declined to have the dirty, smelly innovation anywhere near their pretty English village. So it was routed through New Hanover, ensuring that village’s survival while York shrivelled and died, remaining today as a couple of crumbling homesteads and a quaint and historic chapel.


Google count:
Date:

Historic fact:

Other interesting info:

Where to stay: