Mount Fletcher (officially Tlokoeng) is a town in
Joe Gqabi District Municipality in the
Eastern Cape
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The second largest province in the country (at 168,966 km2) after Northern Cape, it was formed in ...
province of
South Africa
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, 69 km north-north-east of
Maclear.
Founded in 1882, it takes its name from the mountain nearby. This was probably named after the Reverend
John Fletcher of
Madeley in England, a friend of
John Wesley
John Wesley (; 2 March 1791) was an English cleric, theologian, and evangelist who was a leader of a revival movement within the Church of England known as Methodism. The societies he founded became the dominant form of the independent Meth ...
, although it is stated to have been named after a Captain Fletcher who was stationed there.
The provincial hospital in Mount Fletcher is named
Tayler Bequest.
[ Eastern Cape Dept of Health website]
References
Populated places in the Elundini Local Municipality
Populated places established in 1882
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