Orchards, Johannesburg

Orchards
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Location within Greater Johannesburg  Orchards
Coordinates: 26°09′07″S 28°04′30″E / 26.152°S 28.075°E / -26.152; 28.075Coordinates: 26°09′07″S 28°04′30″E / 26.152°S 28.075°E / -26.152; 28.075
Country	South Africa
Province	Gauteng
Municipality	City of Johannesburg
Main Place	Johannesburg
Established	1902
Area
• Total	0.81 km2 (0.31 sq mi)
Population (2011)
• Total	2,282
• Density	2,800/km2 (7,300/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011)
• Black African	37.7%
• Coloured	1.1%
• Indian/Asian	4.5%
• White	54.7%
• Other	1.9
First languages (2011)
• English	63.8%
• Northern Sotho	2.9%
• Zulu	9.0%
• Southern Ndebele	2.0%
• Other	22.3%
Postal code (street)	2192

Orchards is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region E. It is a small suburb surrounded by the wealthy suburb of Oaklands as well as Norwood, Sydenham and The Gardens.

Orchards was declared as a suburb in March 1902. The land at the time was said to be covered in around 2,500 fruit and ornamental tree with an existing homestead. The orchards of the suburb were watered by the Orange Grove Spruit, a seasonal stream with its source on the ridge above Louis Botha Avenue close to Fellside. Most of the stream through the suburb is now either underground or canalized with it eventually forming up with the Sandspruit river. The lands owner, prior to being surveyed as a township, was William Anderson Martin, and was purchased in 1896, consisting of 18 acres of what is now known as Oaklands and Orchards. The land for the St Luke's Anglican Church was donated by him.

Orchards has several heritage sites. The Kraal is a house in Pine Street, now a museum and guest house, built in 1907 by Hermann Kallenbach and has two rondavel's attached to it. It was inhabited by Kallenbach's friend Mohandas Gandhi who lived there between 1908-1909.

Other heritage buildings include the Pine Street Shul built in 1959 with stone friezes that depict the 12 Israeli tribes designed by Eduardo Villa. An older synagogue, no longer in use, is also in Pine Street and was built in 1946.

On the corner of Pine and Garden Road is St Giles Presbyterian Church which dates from 1956 and extended again in 1965. St Luke's, an Anglican church, stands in High Street and was built in 1907 and designed by Sir Herbert Baker, was extended in 1920s, a hall built in 1951 and in 1956 further building of a tower, gallery and vestries took place.