It is situated between Plumstead and Kenilworth, and is a main transport hub for the Southern Suburbs of Cape Town.

He described it as being "beautiful," and being "adorned with a great number of gentlemen's seats, and neat cottages, the avenues leading to them having well-trimmed hedges of myrtle and oak..."[7] The famous astronomer John Herschel lived at Wynberg between 1834 and 1838, where he set up a telescope to study the southern hemisphere skies, and also did some botanical work on South African flowers together with his wife Margaret.

[8] The school was closed and the property sold by the Dutch Mission Church in 1997, it was officially re-opened in Ottery, Cape Town, a few kilometres from Wynberg by ex-President Mandela in 2001.

Opened by the mayor of Wynberg, James Bisset, to provide power to a local tram system and public streetlights.

[9] The municipality of Wynberg was merged into the City of Cape Town following a local referendum on the issue on 11 June 1927.

[10] At the time Wynberg was the largest municipality boarding Cape Town in terms of the number of registered voters in the area (4,250) with only Claremont (3,226) and Sea Point (3,601) being comparable;[3]: 541–542  the municipality included the modern day Cape Town neighborhoods of Plumstead, Diep River, Retreat, Heathfield, Tokai, Constantia, Princess Vlei, Grassy Park, Southfield, Wynberg, and parts of Kenilworth.

[3] Wynberg is bordered by Kenilworth to the north and Plumstead to the south east, Constantia is situated to its west.

The Junior School is housed in Victorian buildings in Cape Town designed by acclaimed architect Sir Herbert Baker.

[15] A rock behind 2 Military Hospital bears an inscription recording the dates when the 59th Regiment (2nd East Lancashire) formed part of the Cape garrison: 1806, 1859–61, 1911–14.

The town council adopted a coat of arms, designed by councillor Stanley Ponder, on 17 June 1895.

The third quarter was black, showing a white tent with a pennant flying (to represent the military garrison).

The fourth quarter depicted a golden vine and three fleurs de lis against a green background.