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Aberfeldy a Settlement in the Free Sate

Aberfeldy in the region of Free State is located in South Africa - some 284 km South of Pretoria, the Country's Capital. Aberfeldy is a small Settlement near Phuthaditjhaba. It is surrounded by Agricultural Land and Game Farms. The Farm 'Aberfeldy', in the Orange Free State had a Post Office known as Elandsrivierbrug; when the Railway reached the Farm in 1902, the new Orange River Colony Administration preferred Aberfeldy. Which is Scottish in origin, to the previous Afrikaans name. By 1905 the post office name was Anglicised into Elands River Bridge. The Railway Siding of the is 4 km away, from this Settlement. 

References

South African Place Names by Peter E. Raper.

Google maps.

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Further Reading
https://www.dewars.com/gl/en/aberfeldydistillery/