Goodwood, Cape Town

Goodwood
Goodwood Show map of Western Cape Goodwood Show map of South Africa Goodwood Show map of Africa  Goodwood shown within Western Cape
Location within Cape Town  Goodwood
Coordinates: 33°54′40.72″S 18°33′02.13″E / 33.9113111°S 18.5505917°E / -33.9113111; 18.5505917Coordinates: 33°54′40.72″S 18°33′02.13″E / 33.9113111°S 18.5505917°E / -33.9113111; 18.5505917
Country	South Africa
Province	Western Cape
Municipality	City of Cape Town
Area
• Total	17.94 km2 (6.93 sq mi)
Population (2011)
• Total	50,285
• Density	2,800/km2 (7,300/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011)
• Black African	17.9%
• Coloured	37.9%
• Indian/Asian	3.4%
• White	37.9%
• Other	2.9%
First languages (2011)
• English	50.9%
• Afrikaans	35.0%
• Xhosa	4.9%
• Other	9.2%
Postal code (street)	7460
PO box	7459
Area code	021

Goodwood is a suburb situated between the northern and southern suburbs of Cape Town, South Africa. It is 10 kilometres from the city centre and accessible from the N1, N7 and N2 highways.

The town was established in 1905 and named after Goodwood Racecourse 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 railway station was built in 1905, and today there are three within the municipal area: Goodwood, Vasco and Elsies River. These all lie on the Cape Town-Johannesburg main line.

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. It replaced this device with a proper coat of arms, designed by Ivan Mitford-Barberton, in 1958. The council registered the arms with the Cape Provincial Administration in May 1959 and at the Bureau of Heraldry in August 1993.

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.