{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2015}} {{Use South African English|date=January 2015}} {{Infobox settlement | name = Alicedale | image_skyline = Alicedale Old Station 2.jpg | image_caption = Alicedale Old Railway Station | pushpin_map = South Africa Eastern Cape#South Africa | coordinates = {{coord|33|19|S|26|5|E|region:ZA|display=inline,title}} | subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_name = [[South Africa]] | subdivision_type1 = Province | subdivision_name1 = [[Eastern Cape]] | subdivision_type2 = District | subdivision_name2 = [[Sarah Baartman District Municipality|Sarah Baartman]] | subdivision_type3 = Municipality | subdivision_name3 = [[Makana Local Municipality|Makana]] | subdivision_type4 = Main Place | established_title = Established | leader_title = Councillor | area_footnotes = <ref name=census2011>Sum of the Main Places [http://census2011.adrianfrith.com/place/264005 Alicedale] and [http://census2011.adrianfrith.com/place/264006 KwaNonzwakazi] from Census 2011.</ref> | area_total_km2 = 4.7 | population_footnotes = <ref name=census2011 /> | population_total = 3872 | population_as_of = 2011 | population_density_km2 = auto <!-- demographics (section 1) --> | demographics_type1 = Racial makeup (2011) | demographics1_footnotes = <ref name=census2011 /> | demographics1_title1 = [[Bantu peoples of South Africa|Black African]] | demographics1_info1 = 57.1% | demographics1_title2 = [[Coloureds|Coloured]] | demographics1_info2 = 40.9% | demographics1_title3 = [[Indian South African|Indian]]/[[Asian South African|Asian]] | demographics1_info3 = 0.3% | demographics1_title4 = [[White South African|White]] | demographics1_info4 = 1.2% | demographics1_title5 = Other | demographics1_info5 = 0.5% <!-- demographics (section 2) --> | demographics_type2 = [[First language]]s (2011) | demographics2_footnotes = <ref name=census2011 /> | demographics2_title1 = [[Xhosa language|Xhosa]] | demographics2_info1 = 51.9% | demographics2_title2 = [[Afrikaans]] | demographics2_info2 = 43.7% | demographics2_title3 = [[English language|English]] | demographics2_info3 = 2.2% | demographics2_title4 = | demographics2_info4 = | demographics2_title5 = Other | demographics2_info5 = 2.1% <!-- blank fields (section 2) --> <!-- Other information --> | timezone1 = [[South African Standard Time|SAST]] | utc_offset1 = +2 | postal_code_type = [[List of postal codes in South Africa|Postal code]] (street) | postal_code = 6135 | postal2_code_type = [[Post-office box|PO box]] | postal2_code = 6135 | area_code_type = [[Telephone numbers in South Africa|Area code]] | area_code = 042 }} '''Alicedale''' is a small settlement in [[Sarah Baartman District Municipality]] in the [[Eastern Cape]] province of [[South Africa]], situated on the banks of the [[Boesmans River (Eastern Cape)|Bushmans River]].

== Railway History ==

Alicedale is a [[railway junction]] on the main railway line between [[Johannesburg]] and [[Port Elizabeth]]. From here a branch line leads to [[Grahamstown]]. The town was a railway training facility during the previous two centuries, from there the historical red facebrick building that now houses the reception of the resort hotel. The town was named for Mrs. Alice Slessor,{{efn|A number of sources including Raper assert that Alice Slessor's maiden name was Dale. This is incorrect, the record of their marriage at St John's Church in the Parish of Paddington, on 10 September 1867<ref>{{Cite web | title = Frederick Slessor and Alice Malton | author = | work = England & Wales marriages 1837-2008 Transcription | date = 1867 | access-date = 2014-10-08 | url = http://search.findmypast.com/record?id=bmd%2fm%2f1867%2f3%2faz%2f000230%2f203 | via= [[Findmypast]] |url-access=subscription }}</ref> clearly indicates that Alice's name was Malton and that she was a spinster at the time of her marriage.}} the wife of the [[Frederick Slessor|engineer]] in charge of construction of the railways.<ref name="Raper1989">{{cite book|last=Raper|first=P. E. |title=Dictionary of Southern African Place Names | url=https://archive.org/stream/DictionaryOfSouthernAfricanPlaceNames/SaPlaceNames#page/n56/mode/2up|year=1989|publisher=Jonathan Ball Publishers|isbn=978-0-947464-04-2|page=56|via=[[Internet Archive]]}}</ref>

== Buildings of interest ==

* ''Bushmans River Sands Hotel'' in Alicedale had an 18-hole golf course.Due to COVID it closed * St Barnabas Anglican Church was dedicated in 1887 and regular Anglican worship still takes place in the church.<ref name="alba_StBa">{{Cite web | title = St Barnabas's Church - Alicedale | author = | work = albanyanglicans.org | date = | access-date = 2015-03-29 | url = http://www.albanyanglicans.org/stbarnabasalicedale/index.php | language = | quote = }}</ref>

The nearest neighbouring towns are [[Riebeek East]] and [[Paterson, Eastern Cape|Paterson]], while [[Grahamstown]] lies {{convert|45|km|mi}} to the east.

== Notes and references == {{commons category}} {{notelist}} {{Reflist}}

{{Sarah Baartman District Municipality}}

[[Category:Populated places in the Makana Local Municipality]]