Windsorton is an agricultural town situated along the R374 Regional Route in the Northern Cape Province of South Africa, in the Vaalharts Irrigation Scheme on the banks of the Vaal River.
The town is located on the Vaal River, approximately 35 km north-east of Barkly West, 40 km south-west of Warrenton, and 55 km north of Kimberley.
Windsorton falls within the Dikgatlong Local Municipality under the Frances Baard District Municipality of the Northern Cape Province.
History
Windsorton was founded in 1869 as a diamond-diggers’ camp and was administered by a village management board.
The town started as Hebron, a mission station, but when diamonds were discovered, the area was flooded with prospectors and the town became a diggers’ camp. The town was renamed after P F (Peter Ford) Windsor, the original owner of the land, who was instrumental in its development.
The town’s Khoekhoen name is Chaib, ‘place of the kudu’.