Peelton is a village in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa, situated approximately 16 km north-east of Qonce (formerly known as King William’s Town) and 60 km north-west of East London.
Peelton village falls within the Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality and was founded in 1848-49 as a station of the London Missionary Society.
The village named after Sir Robert Peel, former Prime Minister of Britain and First Lord of the Treasury in 1834; it takes its name from the Valley of Peel.
