Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Henley on Klip is situated next to the R59 along the Klip River between Johannesburg and Vereeniging.The village was founded in 1904, by Advocate Horace Kent. Born in 1855 in Henley on Thames, England, Kent came to South Africa in 1898. The area where Henley on Klip is located, reminded Kent of his hometown, in England, Henley on Thames. Kent, in conjunction with the Small Farms Company (SFC), bought the land from a Mr. Van Der Westhuizen, for a price of 5000 Pounds, and the land was divided into smallholdings from 1 to 80 acres (320,000 m2).In 1904, the SFC decided to build the Kidson Weir on the Klip River in Henley on Klip. The weir was named after Fenning Kidson, the grandson of an1820 settler. Fenning was educated in England, but returned to South Africaas a young man and became a transport rider, a contemporary of Sir PercyFitzpatrick. Soon after the outbreak of the Anglo Boer War, news came toKidson that a commando was on his way to his farm to arrest him. Under thenoses of the Boers he escaped, riding sidesaddle, his burly frame crammedinto his wife’s riding habit. He finally made his way to Natal, butreturned to the Transvaal after the war, settling in Henley on Klip with hiswife, Edith. The family home was named Tilham, which is the manor house onthe river at the corner of Regatta and Shillingford Roads. }
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- Henley_on_Klip abstract "Henley on Klip is situated next to the R59 along the Klip River between Johannesburg and Vereeniging.The village was founded in 1904, by Advocate Horace Kent. Born in 1855 in Henley on Thames, England, Kent came to South Africa in 1898. The area where Henley on Klip is located, reminded Kent of his hometown, in England, Henley on Thames. Kent, in conjunction with the Small Farms Company (SFC), bought the land from a Mr. Van Der Westhuizen, for a price of 5000 Pounds, and the land was divided into smallholdings from 1 to 80 acres (320,000 m2).In 1904, the SFC decided to build the Kidson Weir on the Klip River in Henley on Klip. The weir was named after Fenning Kidson, the grandson of an1820 settler. Fenning was educated in England, but returned to South Africaas a young man and became a transport rider, a contemporary of Sir PercyFitzpatrick. Soon after the outbreak of the Anglo Boer War, news came toKidson that a commando was on his way to his farm to arrest him. Under thenoses of the Boers he escaped, riding sidesaddle, his burly frame crammedinto his wife’s riding habit. He finally made his way to Natal, butreturned to the Transvaal after the war, settling in Henley on Klip with hiswife, Edith. The family home was named Tilham, which is the manor house onthe river at the corner of Regatta and Shillingford Roads".