Skip to main content
Menu
♥ Donate
placeREF P-0124427Revised

Place record

Grydo Pass

Coordinates
-33.2340, 19.3120
Updated
18 Apr 2019
Grydo Pass

View of Grydo Pass Image source

Gydo Pass is situated in the Western Cape, province of South Africa on the Regional road R303 between Ceres and Citrusdal. The Gydo Pass was built at the same time as Michells Pass by Andrew Geddes Bain and his team of convict labourers in, 1848. This important pass connected the Warm Bokkeveld with the higher altitude Koue Bokkeveld, as well as the remote, but fertile (and therefore lucrative) Witzenberg Valley a few kilometers West of the head of the pass.

Location Map

Grydo Pass

How we know this

  1. 01https://www.mountainpassessouthafrica.co.za/find-a-pass/western-cape/item/48-gydo-pass,-ceres.html

Last updated · 18 Apr 2019

Cite this entry

South African History Online. (2017, November 14). Grydo Pass. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/P-0124427

South African History Online (2017) 'Grydo Pass', South African History Online, 14 November. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/ref/P-0124427 (Accessed: 20 October 2026).

South African History Online, Grydo Pass [website], https://sahistory.org.za/ref/P-0124427, (accessed 20 October 2026).

"Grydo Pass." South African History Online, 14 Nov. 2017, https://sahistory.org.za/ref/P-0124427. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

South African History Online. "Grydo Pass." South African History Online. November 14, 2017. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/P-0124427.

Further reading

Paternoster, West Coast Place

Paternoster, West Coast

"Think of Fishermen and Fishing Boats, hardy Fynbos growing on whites Dunes, and of Bokkoms (dried Fish), drying in the....
Popular Content

SAHO is free because readers fund it. Donate →