Mowbray, is a quiet Cape Town suburb with beautiful examples of Victorian terraced homes on the banks of the Liesbeek River, is full of student digs giving it a health youthful atmosphere. Greening projects, such as planting trees, has improved the area, and trendy restaurants and coffee shops have moved into Durban Road - now a food lover’s paradise - where locals sprawl out on to the pavements and catchy names like ‘Fat Cactus’ and ‘Chai Yo’ attract the student population.
Mowbray lies close to the University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital. Mowbray stretches from Mostert’s Mill, built on the farm Welgelegen around 1796, to the Rondebosch Common, between Rosebank and the N2. Mowbray has pockets of quiet, leafy residential areas in Little Mowbray, the Village and upper Mowbray with Victorian terrace homes, some of which are national monuments, and gorgeous examples of Cape cottages.
Mowbray is close to the city centre via the M3, it is a well sized suburb with some 4,367 people living in it.