| Goodwood | |
| Pushpin Map: | South Africa Western Cape#South Africa#Africa |
| Coordinates: | -33.9067°N 18.5492°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | South Africa |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Name1: | Western Cape |
| Subdivision Type2: | District |
| Subdivision Type3: | Municipality |
| Subdivision Name3: | City of Cape Town |
| Subdivision Type4: | Main Place |
| Established Title: | Established |
| Leader Title: | Councillor |
| Area Footnotes: | [1] |
| Area Total Km2: | 17.94 |
| Population Total: | 50285 |
| Population As Of: | 2011 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Demographics Type1: | Racial makeup (2011) |
| Demographics1 Title1: | Black African |
| Demographics1 Info1: | 17.9% |
| Demographics1 Title2: | Coloured |
| Demographics1 Info2: | 37.9% |
| Demographics1 Title3: | Indian/Asian |
| Demographics1 Info3: | 3.4% |
| Demographics1 Title4: | White |
| Demographics1 Info4: | 37.9% |
| Demographics1 Title5: | Other |
| Demographics1 Info5: | 2.9% |
| Demographics Type2: | First languages (2011) |
| Demographics2 Title1: | English |
| Demographics2 Info1: | 50.9% |
| Demographics2 Title2: | Afrikaans |
| Demographics2 Info2: | 35.0% |
| Demographics2 Title3: | Xhosa |
| Demographics2 Info3: | 4.9% |
| Demographics2 Title5: | Other |
| Demographics2 Info5: | 9.2% |
| Timezone1: | SAST |
| Utc Offset1: | +2 |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code (street) |
| Postal Code: | 7460 |
| Postal2 Code Type: | PO box |
| Postal2 Code: | 7459 |
| Area Code Type: | Area code |
| Area Code: | 021 |
Goodwood is a suburb of Cape Town in the Western Cape, South Africa and is situated in the Tygerberg region of the City of Cape Town. It is 10 kilometres from Cape Town and accessible from the N1, N7 and N2 highways.[2]
The town was established in 1905[3] and named after Goodwood Racecourse in England as the founders intended to make it a racing centre. A course was actually constructed, but after only one meeting it was abandoned.[4]
The first railway station was built in 1905, and today there are five within the municipal area. Three of them lie on the Cape Town-Johannesburg main line:[4] Goodwood, Vasco and Elsies River. It also has Monte Vista and Acasia Park stations which are on the secondary line between Cape Town and Bellville.
Goodwood was a municipality in its own right from 1938 to 1996. In 1939, the council adopted a pseudo-heraldic "coat of arms" depicting an aeroplane, an ox-wagon, and a horse jumping over a fence.[5] It replaced this device with a proper coat of arms, designed by Ivan Mitford-Barberton, in 1958. The council registered the arms with the Cape Provincial Administration in May 1959[6] and at the Bureau of Heraldry in August 1993.[7]
The arms were : Argent, on a fess Gules, between in chief four trees with six leaves each and in base three pallets, Sable, the central pallet surmounted by a cogwheel counterchanged, a leopard passant, Argent and Sable. In layman's terms : a silver shield displaying, from top to bottom, a row of four black trees with six leaves each, a red horizontal stripe displaying a leopard, and three black vertical stripes with a cogwheel on the centre stripe.
The crest was a palamino unicorn issuing from a golden mural crown and holding a red disc between its forelegs, and the motto was Procedo.