The small town of Bergville
is the gateway to the Northern
Drakensberg and there is an office of the Drakensberg Publicity Association
in the town. The third Friday of each month sees the local cattle sales.
Less than 50km from the towering 
Amphitheatre
of the Royal
Natal National Park, this ideally-situated agricultural and trading centre
of Bergville was laid out in 1897 by a retired sea captain. British forces built
a blockhouse in the settlement two years later at the onset of the Anglo-Boer
War - that building is now a Monument and Museum within the grounds of the local
Court House.
The blockhouse built by the British stands in the grounds of the Courthouse and is the only surviving blockhouse in KwaZulu-Natal. Between Bergville and the Royal Natal National Park is the Zulu handicraft center of Thandanani that sells a variety of traditional beadwork, woodwork and baskets.
Not
far from the town is the
Spioenkop Battlefield and Dam resort and the Rangeworthy Cemetery that holds
the graves of those killed in the battles of Spioenkop and Bastion Hill.
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