Richmond (K 14)

Name: Richmond

The small town of Richmond, Northern Cape, is situated on the N1 roughly half way between Cape Town and Johannesburg and equally half way between the two major Karoo towns of Colesberg and Beaufort West. Placed in the heart of the Great Karoo Desert, which the locals like to describe as the World's best developed desert, Richmond is ideally situated as the perfect stop over but perhaps more as a point of departure to explore the wonders of the Karoo.

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The quiet, almost genteel air of remote little Richmond with its 19th century architecture was part of world history in the making. A boy born here went on to become the acknowledged father of modern orthopaedic surgery. And then, years later, fierce fighting gained it a niche in the history of the last of the gentlemen's wars.

There is even a strong link with the devastating potato crop failure in Ireland in 1859, when people fled the famine. One of these thousands was an exceedingly able school teacher who created the sound basis for schooling in Richmond. International links extend also to horse-breeding circles in Kentucky in the United States. The local museum is one of only two in the world to honour the saddle horse breed. Also, the town was named in honour of an English duke.
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