Hopefield Accommodation

Situated in the West Coast District Municipality in the Western Cape province of South Africa you will find the settlement of Hopefield. The town lies on the R27 road between Malmesbury and Vredenburg and is just east of Saldanha Bay and Langebaan. Hopefield is 40 km southeast of Vredenburg and 120 km north of Cape Town. Like a lot of settlements in the area, Hopefield has its roots in the Dutch Reformed Church. The Dutch Reformed congregation (Zoutrivier) was established December 1851 and the town was founded in 1852 on the farm Langekuil, it became a municipality in 1914. The town was named after the two people who laid it out, Major William Hope, the Auditor General, and a Mr Field.

Distances in this part of the country mean very little and the locations of the Air Force Base Langebaanweg which is 22km west from town, and the West Coast Fossil park which is 25km west of the town, fall within town limits.

In earlier years this own was considered the capital of the West Coast. With banks, filling stations and a variety of other shops and businesses. The only access to the towns of Vredenburg, Langebaan and Saldanha was through Hopefield. With the re-routing of the R27, which now passes the town on the outside and the construction of the R45 (West Coast Road) the infra structure of the down gradually shrunk.

The pre 1994 coloured area of the town is called Oudekraalfontein and according to the 2001 cencus had a population of 2903 people.