Norvalspont

Norvalspont is a town of 1,200 people (2011) in the Free State province.

Understand
The name is Afrikaans for Norval’s ferry, and named after an enterprising Scot who constructed a ferry here in 1848.

Norvalspont was the site of a British concentration camp between February 1901 and October 1902.

Get in
The settlement lies some 40 km east-north-east of Colesberg and 43 km west-north-west of Venterstad, on the southern bank of the Orange River, just below the Gariep Dam.