Oaklands, Gauteng
# Oaklands, Gauteng

Oaklands is an affluent suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Johannesburg Region E. It is a small suburb surrounded by the suburbs of Houghton Estate, Norwood, Orchards, The Gardens and Highlands North.

## History

Oaklands came into existence in $1896.^{:162}$ The lands owner prior to it being surveyed as a township was William Anderson Martin and purchased in 1896, consisting of 18 acres of what is now known as Oaklands and $Orchards.^{:177}$ Martin would own a large house in suburb called Avonmore a would live there until his death in $1960.^{:177}$

The eastern border of the suburb, bounded by Orchards is separated by a seasonal spruit (stream) that has its source in the Houghton Golf Club and with a possible further source on the ridge above Louis Botha Avenue close to $Fellside.^{:376}$ Most of the stream through the suburb is now either underground or canalized with it eventually forming up with the Orange Grove Spruit and entering the Sandspruit $river.^{:376}$

