Peelton is a village 60 km north-west of East London and 16 km north-east of King William's Town.

It was founded in 1848-49 as a station of the London Missionary Society.

Named after Sir Robert Peel, former Prime Minister of Britain and First Lord of the Treasury in 1834; it takes its name from the Valley of Peel.

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