Elton Hill is a suburb of
Johannesburg
Johannesburg ( , , ; Zulu and xh, eGoli ), colloquially known as Jozi, Joburg, or "The City of Gold", is the largest city in South Africa, classified as a megacity, and is one of the 100 largest urban areas in the world. According to Demo ...
,
South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the north by the neighbouring countri ...
. It is a small suburb tucked between
Athol and
Melrose. It is located in Region E of the
City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.
History
Prior to the discovery of gold on the
Witwatersrand
The Witwatersrand () (locally the Rand or, less commonly, the Reef) is a , north-facing scarp in South Africa. It consists of a hard, erosion-resistant quartzite metamorphic rock, over which several north-flowing rivers form waterfalls, which ...
in 1886, the suburb lay on land on one of the original farms called ''Syferfontein''.
It became a suburbs on 1 June 1949, developed by John Ellis Crofton and the suburb name is based on his middle and last names.
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References
Johannesburg Region E
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