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Balgowan Accommodation: Nearby towns with accommodation:
Howick Accommodation | Dargle Accommodation | Lidgetton Accommodation
Underberg Accommodation | Rosetta Accommodation | Nottingham Road Accommodation
Balgowan is a valley in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands in South Africa.
The town of Balgowan is not much more than an old trading store and a train station
where locally grown timber is picked up. However, nearby is Michaelhouse, the
Anglican boarding school for boys in the Diocese of Natal, an exclusive private
boarding school. The school complex, built in the English gothic style from
red Pietermaritzburg brick, includes a chapel which is open to the public,
featuring a stained glass rose window by Ervin Bossanyi.
As elsewhere in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands, Balgowan has some wealthy farmers,
mostly in the timber production industry (pine and eucalyptus) or in dairy and
cattle farming.
The Midlands Meander, a scenic tourist route featuring arts and crafts,
restaurants and accommodation, runs through Balgowan on the R 103.
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