Over de plaats » Dalton, uMgungundlovu District Municipality, KwaZulu-Natal, Zuid Afrika

Dalton is a small town in KwaZulu-Natal. It is mainly a sugarcane growing region with the Union Co-Op mill and the Illovo Noodsberg mill nearby. Dalton is about 45 minutes out of Pietermaritzburg. The nearest towns are Noodsberg, Wartburg, New Hanover and Harburg. Village some 11km east of New Hanover and 35km south of Greytown. Named after North Dalton in Yorkshire, from whence came Henry Boast who organized an immigration to Natal in 1850 of people from Yorkshire. It is the junction for the Noodsberg line.