Willowmore

{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Use South African English|date=January 2015}} {{Infobox settlement | name = | image_skyline = Stadsaal Willowmore.jpg | image_caption = Town hall | pushpin_map = South Africa Eastern Cape#South Africa#Africa | coordinates = {{coord|33|17|S|23|29|E|region:ZA|display=inline,title}} | subdivision_type = [[Country]] | subdivision_name = South Africa | subdivision_type1 = [[Provinces of South Africa|Province]] | subdivision_name1 = [[Eastern Cape]] | subdivision_type2 = [[List of districts of South Africa|District]] | subdivision_name2 = [[Sarah Baartman District Municipality|Sarah Baartman]] | subdivision_type3 = [[List of municipalities of South Africa|Municipality]] | subdivision_name3 = [[Dr Beyers Naudé Local Municipality|Dr Beyers Naudé]] | subdivision_type4 = Main Place | established_title = Established | leader_title = Councillor | area_footnotes = <ref name="census2011">{{cite web |url=http://census2011.adrianfrith.com/place/267003 |title = Main Place Willowmore |work=Census 2011}} </ref> | area_total_km2 = 21.74 | population_footnotes = <ref name="census2011" /> | population_total = 7678 | population_as_of = 2011 | population_density_km2 = auto  | demographics_type1 = Racial makeup (2011) | demographics1_footnotes = <ref name="census2011" /> | demographics1_title1 = [[Bantu peoples of South Africa|Black African]] | demographics1_info1 = 10.0% | demographics1_title2 = [[Coloureds|Coloured]] | demographics1_info2 = 86.3% | demographics1_title3 = [[Indian South African|Indian]]/[[Asian South African|Asian]] | demographics1_info3 = 0.2% | demographics1_title4 = [[White South African|White]] | demographics1_info4 = 3.0% | demographics1_title5 = Other | demographics1_info5 = 0.6%  | demographics_type2 = [[First language]]s (2011) | demographics2_footnotes = <ref name="census2011" /> | demographics2_title1 = Afrikaans | demographics2_info1 = 94.6% | demographics2_title2 = [[Xhosa language|Xhosa]] | demographics2_info2 = 3.2% | demographics2_title3 = [[South African English|English]] | demographics2_info3 = 1.2% | demographics2_title4 = | demographics2_info4 = | demographics2_title5 = Other | demographics2_info5 = 1.0%   | timezone1 = [[South African Standard Time|SAST]] | utc_offset1 = +2 | postal_code_type = [[List of postal codes in South Africa|Postal code]] (street) | postal_code = 6445 | postal2_code_type = [[Post-office box|PO box]] | postal2_code = 6445 | area_code_type = [[Telephone numbers in South Africa|Area code]] | area_code = 044 }} '''Willowmore''' is a town in [[Sarah Baartman District Municipality]] in the [[Eastern Cape]] province of South Africa.

Willowmore is situated 140 km north-east of the town of [[Knysna]] and 117 km south-west of [[Aberdeen, Eastern Cape|Aberdeen]]. It was laid out in 1862 on the farm The Willows. It is uncertain whether the name is derived from this farm name and that of its owner, William Moore, or from the maiden name of Petronella Catharina Lehmkuhl and a willow-tree near her house.<ref name=dsapn>{{cite web|title=Dictionary of Southern African Place Names (Public Domain)|url=https://archive.org/details/DictionaryOfSouthernAfricanPlaceNames|publisher=Human Science Research Council|page=473}}</ref>

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[[Category:Populated places in the Dr Beyers Naudé Local Municipality]] [[Category:Populated places established in 1862]] [[Category:1862 establishments in the Cape Colony]]