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Cornish pump building, Okiep, Namaqualand District

SiteReference: 

DeclarationType: 

GazetteNo: 

6124

Gazette Date: 

Friday, August 4, 1978

NoticeNo: 

1575

Notice Date: 

Friday, August 4, 1978

Gazette Notice Status: 

  • Current

GazetteFile: 

AttachmentSize
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ArchiveStatus: 

National monument

ShortDescription: 

The historic Cornish pump engine complex at O'Okiep

FullDescription: 

The historic Cornish pump engine complex , consisting of an engine, cornish pump, mine shaft and furnace, situated on certain piece of abolished quitrent land, situate in the Division of Namaqualand, being the remaining extent of the farm called Brakfontein alias Groot Brak, and measuring as per remaining extent: Three thousand two hundred and twelve (3 212) morgen, four hundred and ninety-seven (497) square roods, one hundred and thirty-two (132) square feet.

Deed of Transfer 9350/1937, dated 3 September 1937 (Paragraph 85).

 
 

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