Survey 1.1&2.1&3.1&4.1Muizenberg1 MARCH2017

BOTTOM OF OLD BOYES DRIVE – STONE QUARRY PIC 256 GILL RD – STONE QUARRY PIC 257

ZANDVLEI LAGOON PIC 258 PIC 259

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BOYES DRIVE – SCENIC BY-PASS PIC 260 MUIZENBERG – ST JAMES WALKWAY

PIC 261

Street address Erf number Type of structure Name Street address Erf number Type of structure Name
Boyes Drive Scenic ‘by-pass’ Boyes Drive Walkway Muizenberg-St
Date built motorway. NHRA status Style Date built James Walkway
Style 1923-28 Present use Grading (sugg.) 1987 Present use NHRA status
History/literature Alterations/condition IIa Description History/literature Recreational
Description Boyes drive, which, apart 1, 6 km long walkway over rocky WM p.50. Alterations/condition Grading (sugg.)
Laid out roughly along a contour on the from being one of the main Significant Some significance coastline. Very significant IIIb
slopes above Lakeside, Muizenberg and St scenic routes in the cape and
James, this scenic drive was first mooted providing a shortcut to Kalk Historical X Significant Some significance
before 1900. It received further impetus as Bay, is also a useful Rarity
part of Sir Frederick de Waal’s scheme for firebreak, protecting the Aesthetic/architectural X
an ‘all round the Peninsula Road’ in 1913. densely built-up areas below Cultural
It was completed by 1928 with the help of it in 1963 it was extended Social history
convict labour, and named after George further northwards to Landmark
Boyes, retired resident magistrate of Lakeside. As a proclaimed
Simon’s Town. It was opened by scenic drive, regulations are
Councillor Dr.Abdullah Abdurahman. in place restricting building
heights, boundary walls, etc.
Historical WM p.46-9. WSF p.195-
Rarity 107.
Aesthetic/architectural Very significant
Cultural
Social history X
Landmark

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BOYES DRIVE – SCENIC BY-PASS PIC 260 PIC 261

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Muizenberg : Hillcrest

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Muizenberg Village Centre, Park and Seaview

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Muizenberg : Rust-en-Vrede - Posthuys

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St James : Braemar Road - Muizenberg Rhodes Cottage

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