Glenesk

Glenesk
Glenesk
	Glenesk Location within Gauteng Glenesk Location within South Africa
	Coordinates: 26°13′55″S 28°02′46″E / 26.232°S 28.046°E
Country	South Africa
Province	Gauteng
Municipality	City of Johannesburg
Main Place	Johannesburg
Established	1931
Area
• Total	0.65 km2 (0.25 sq mi)
Population (2011)
• Total	1,030
• Density	1,600/km2 (4,100/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011)
• Black African	49.7%
• Coloured	12.7%
• Indian/Asian	2.9%
• White	33.0%
• Other	1.7%
First languages (2011)
• Afrikaans	34.3%
• English	27.5%
• Zulu	9.8%
• Xhosa	7.0%
• Other	21.4%
Time zone	UTC+2 (SAST)
Postal code (street)	2190

Glenesk is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa, and is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality. The suburb lies just north of Turffontein and is south of the CBD.

History

The suburb was surveyed in 1928 and then proclaimed on 30 September 1931.^[2] The name has a Scottish origin, named after Glenesk House in Scotland.^[2]

References

1 2 3 4 "Sub Place Glenesk". Census 2011.
1 2 Raper, Peter E.; Moller, Lucie A.; du Plessis, Theodorus L. (2014). Dictionary of Southern African Place Names. Jonathan Ball Publishers. p. 1412. ISBN 9781868425501.

[census2011-1] 1 2 3 4 "Sub Place Glenesk". Census 2011.

[Dict01-2] 1 2 Raper, Peter E.; Moller, Lucie A.; du Plessis, Theodorus L. (2014). Dictionary of Southern African Place Names. Jonathan Ball Publishers. p. 1412. ISBN 9781868425501.

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