The most important being the railway line that runs through the middle of the suburb and the N1 that is situated on its northern boundary.

The suburb is named after Sir Peregrine Maitland who was governor of the Cape in the mid 1840s.

Maitland lies to the north of Pinelands, south of Brooklyn, east of Salt River During the Second Anglo-Boer War Maitland was the site of a major British cavalry camp, where troops and horses recovered from the voyage from Britain.

[7] The shrine of a well known Muslim Sufi saint i.e. Hazarat Khawaja Sayed Mehboob Ali Sha (R.A) is situated at the Maitland Cemetery gate 4A is also a source of blessings and unity of many communities.

[8] Maitland Cemetery is also home to South Africa's only alkaline hydrolysis facility, where Archbishop Desmond Tutu's remains were famously liquefied following a state funeral.