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Kwazulu Natal Midlands Howick accommodation - Stocklands Farm
Description
By 1845 the small settlement of Howick - first known as Alleman's Drift - was a favourite resort for the people of Pietermaritzburg who came out to marvel at the kwaNogqwazi Falls or "The Place of the Tall One' as they were originally known. There was no bridge across the river but the proprietor of the "house of entertainment" on the other side supplied a punt!
Land in the area was being granted to British settlers by Queen Victoria and in 1846 the land that eventually comprised the farms Stocklands, Oatlands and Woodlands was surveyed and the title deeds given to the Reverend Archbell, a Weslyan missionary who had come with his wife and children to the Colony in. (A copy of the original title deed to Stocklands is in the Howick Museum.) However neither he nor any member of his family were to live at Stocklands and in 1850 36 plots were surveyed and sub-divided from the farm and sold to form the new village of Howick.
Howick was named after the Northumberland home of Earl Grey, Secretary for the Colonies and inventor of Earl Grey tea - which we serve at Stocklands to this day!
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