Estate Living September 2016 Digital Issue | Page 22

COTSWOLD
Once a dear little hamlet
bordering KwaZulu-Natal’s
Valley of a Thousand Hills,
Hillcrest
underwent
a
massive property boom
before
becoming
the
established Durban suburb
we know today. Conceived
with modest ambitions as
a self-governed farming
village among sprawling
fields of sugar cane, it was
often used by townies as a