SOUTH AFRICA
Montpellier Estate
Tulbagh (between Wellington and Piketberg), Cape Province (30-14S, 25-52E). Deed for the land (50 morgens of alluvial soil on the banks of the Klein Berg river) was signed in 1714, the first owner being Jean Joubert, a Huguenot refugee from and native of Montpellier, France, who named his new farm after it. In the late 1990s it was a vineyard, run by Mr De Wet Theron, whose family acquired the farm in 1778, but it seems recently to have ceased production, at least under this name. Wine was officially first produced here shortly before the end of the 19th century.
(Thanks to Sean Kriegler of Participation Adventure Tours for much of this info.)
Montpelier Road
Morningside, Durban. Undated. Location of several businesses, as well as the Durban Area School of Philosophy at number 200. Given the Morningside location, does this echo one of the Edinburgh Montpeliers?
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