Cashel, Zimbabwe

Cashel is a village in Chimanimani District of Manicaland Province, Zimbabwe, near the Mozambique border and just north of the Chimanimani Mountains. It was originally called Penkridge, after a neighbouring farm where a postal agency was set up in 1911, and was renamed Cashel in 1957 after Lieutenant Colonel E. Cashel, a former British South Africa Police officer who retired to the area after the First World War. Forestry, bananas, wheat and other cash crops are grown there, and the valley is known from radio and television advertisements for the quality of its peas, beans and other produce.