Amidst the exquisite high country of Haenertsburg in the Limpopo Province, land of mountains, lakes, waterfalls and forests, stands the elegant Stanford Lake Lodge, a tribute to those seeking the ultimate in idyllic privacy... History of Stanford Farm
The headlines of two 1941 Limpopo Province newspaper reports read “Big-Game Hunter Drowned in a dam” and TRAGIC ACCIDENT AT “STANFORD’S LAKE”. He di
ed in it because he loved fishing. Harley was born in France on the 2nd of July 1871. He came to the Cape as a child but was educated at Dulwich College near London. He was a tax collector in the Pilansberg area and then Haenertsburg from 1911-1924. His nickname, Intabalen, meant “the one to be looked up to” because he was usually on horseback. He was also one of the first people to own a Buick. Harley’s grandson Gavin, his wife Jady and their two children moved up to the farm from Cape Town in 2000. There were opportunities in Tourism and Gavin decided to do a course on ‘building log cabins’. He finished the course and set out to build the cabins. The first cabin, a double storey unit, was completed in 2002. It has three double bedrooms, two bathrooms and sleeps eight people. Gavin then started building the second cabin, which was completed a year after the first lodge. It is a single-storey log cabin that has three bedrooms, one bathroom and sleeps six people.
