Abbotsdale

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{{Infobox settlement

| name = Abbotsdale

| pushpin_map = South Africa Western Cape#South Africa

| coordinates = {{coord|33|29|13|S|18|40|33|E|region:ZA|display=inline,title}}

| subdivision_type = Country

| subdivision_name = South Africa

| subdivision_type1 = Province

| subdivision_name1 = Western Cape

| subdivision_type2 = District

| subdivision_name2 = West Coast

| subdivision_type3 = Municipality

| subdivision_name3 = Swartland

| subdivision_type4 = Main Place

| established_title = Established

| leader_title = Councillor

| unit_pref = Metric

| area_footnotes = {{cite web |url=http://census2011.adrianfrith.com/place/164018 |title = Main Place Abbotsdale |work=Census 2011}}

| area_total_km2 = 8.70

| population_footnotes =

| population_total = 3762

| population_as_of = 2011

| population_density_km2 = auto

| demographics_type1 = Racial makeup (2011)

| demographics1_footnotes =

| demographics1_title1 = Black African

| demographics1_info1 = 4.2%

| demographics1_title2 = Coloured

| demographics1_info2 = 95.3%

| demographics1_title3 = Indian/Asian

| demographics1_info3 = 0.2%

| demographics1_title4 = White

| demographics1_info4 = 0.2%

| demographics1_title5 = Other

| demographics1_info5 = 0.2%

| demographics_type2 = First languages (2011)

| demographics2_footnotes =

| demographics2_title1 = Afrikaans

| demographics2_info1 = 92.8%

| demographics2_title2 = English

| demographics2_info2 = 3.1%

| demographics2_title3 = Xhosa

| demographics2_info3 = 2.7%

| demographics2_title4 =

| demographics2_info4 =

| demographics2_title5 = Other

| demographics2_info5 = 1.4%

| timezone1 = SAST

| utc_offset1 = +2

| postal_code_type = Postal code (street)

| postal_code = 7300

| postal2_code_type = PO box

| postal2_code =

| area_code_type = Area code

}}

Abbotsdale is a settlement in West Coast District Municipality Swartland Municipality in the Western Cape province of South Africa.

Here in around 1854 the Abbotsdale Mission was founded {{cite book |last1=Wood |first1=Michael Henry Mansel |title=A father in God : the episcopate of William West Jones |url=https://archive.org/details/fatheringodepisc00wood |date=1913 |publisher=London Macmillan |location=archive.org |pages=[https://archive.org/details/fatheringodepisc00wood/page/n170 125]}} on a 1600 acre farm purchased by Bishop Gray of the Anglican Church.{{cite book |last1=Pascoe |first1=Charles Frederick |title=Two hundred years of the S.P.G.: an historical account of the Society for the propagation of the gospel in foreign parts, 1701-1900 |url=https://archive.org/details/twohundredyears00goog |date=1901 |location=Archive.org |pages=[https://archive.org/details/twohundredyears00goog/page/n388 291]}}