Mostert's Mill, Cape Town

Name: Mostert's Mill
Address: Cape Town, South Africa

#77 among attractions in Cape Town

Museum, Windmill

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Mostert's Mill is a historic windmill in Mowbray, Cape Town, South Africa. It was built in 1796 and was the oldest surviving complete windmill in South Africa. It was gutted in a wildfire on 18 April 2021. The fire had started on Table Mountain and spread, severely damaging a number of buildings. ()

Local name: Mostert se meul Coordinates: 33°57'8"S, 18°27'58"E

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Rondebosch - RosebankCape Town South Africa

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Mostert's Mill – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Rhodes Memorial, Heart of Cape Town Museum, Baxter Theatre, Cape Town Science Centre.

0.4 miW
Historical place, Memorial
Rhodes Memorial, Table Mountain National Park
11 min walk • Rhodes Memorial on Devil's Peak in Cape Town, South Africa, is a memorial to English-born, South African politician Cecil John Rhodes. The memorial was designed by the renowned architect, Sir Herbert Baker.
0.8 miN
Museum, Specialty museum, History museum
Heart of Cape Town Museum, Cape Town
21 min walk • The Heart of Cape Town Museum is a museum complex in the Observatory suburb of Cape Town, South Africa. It is in the Groote Schuur Hospital on Main Road.
0.4 miSE
Theater, Concerts and shows, Concert hall
Baxter Theatre, Cape Town
11 min walk • The Baxter Theatre Centre is a performing arts complex in Rondebosch, a suburb of Cape Town, South Africa. The Baxter, as it is often known, is part of the University of Cape Town; it is also the second largest performing arts complex in Cape Town, after the Artscape Theatre Centre.
1 miN
Museum, Specialty museum, Science museum
Cape Town Science Centre, Cape Town
25 min walk • The Cape Town Science Centre is a not-for-profit science centre in Cape Town, South Africa. It forms part of a wide range of non-classroom initiatives to improve the quality of science understanding and science literacy in South Africa.
0.8 miS
Museum, History museum
Groote Schuur, Cape Town
21 min walk • Groote Schuur is an estate in Cape Town, South Africa. In 1657, the estate was owned by the Dutch East India Company which used it partly as a granary. Later, the farm and farmhouse was sold into private hands.
1 miE
Park
Rondebosch Common, Cape Town
26 min walk • Rondebosch Common is an open common of about 40 hectares in Rondebosch, Cape Town in South Africa. A common is defined as "A piece of open land for public use, esp. in a village or town." It contains one of the few surviving pockets of the critically endangered “Cape Flats Sand...
0.5 miSW
Universities and schools
University of Cape Town, Cape Town
12 min walk • The University of Cape Town is a public research university located in Cape Town in the Western Cape province of South Africa. UCT was founded in 1829 as the South African College making it the oldest higher education institute in South Africa.
1.2 miN
Area
Observatory, Cape Town
30 min walk • Observatory is a suburb in Cape Town, South Africa that is bordered by Mowbray to the south, and Salt River to the northwest. Colloquially known as Obs, the area is best known as a student neighbourhood, home to students, faculty and other staff associated with the University of Cape Town nearby.
0.8 miSW
Zoo
Groote Schuur Zoo, Cape Town
21 min walk • The Groote Schuur Zoo was a 2-hectare zoo in Cape Town, South Africa. Established in 1931 at the request of deceased Cecil Rhodes, it was free of charge and a very popular attraction in Cape Town until its closure sometime between 1975 and 1985.
1.4 miNE
Observatories and planetariums
Royal Observatory, Cape Town
35 min walk • The Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope, is the oldest continuously existing scientific institution in South Africa. Founded by the British Board of Longitude in 1820, it now forms the headquarters building of the South African Astronomical Observatory.
1.1 miSE
Neighbourhood
Rondebosch Fountain, Cape Town
29 min walk • Rondebosch Fountain is an ornamental Victorian drinking trough for horses, standing on a traffic island on the intersection between Belmont Road and Main Road in the centre of Rondebosch in Cape Town, South Africa. It was declared a National Monument on 10 April 1964.

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Which popular attractions are close to Mostert's Mill?

Nearby attractions include Rhodes Memorial, Table Mountain National Park (11 min walk), Baxter Theatre, Cape Town (11 min walk), University of Cape Town, Cape Town (12 min walk), University of Cape Town Libraries, Cape Town (13 min walk).

How to get to Mostert's Mill by public transport?

The nearest stations to Mostert's Mill:

Bus

Tugwell • Lines: 1, 4 (8 min walk)
UCT North • Lines: 1, 4, Upper Campus - Hiddingh Campus (9 min walk)

Train

Rosebank (12 min walk)
Mowbray (15 min walk)