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Cashel is a village in Chimanimani District of Manicaland Province, Zimbabwe. It is located near the Mozambique border, just north of the Chimanimani Mountains. Forestry, bananas, wheat, and various cash crops are grown in the area. It was originally called Penkridge but was changed to Cashel in 1957. It was named after Lt. Col. E. Cashel, a former member of the British South Africa Police and the Rhodesian Volunteers, who retired to this area after World War I. The Cashel valley is well known for radio and television commercials, which sought to extol the quality of its peas, beans and other agricultural products.

The name's history goes back to the time when Sub Inspector Rowan Cashel of the B. S. A. Police took up a farm, which he called Cashel, in the North Melsetter district. He later became a Colonel in the First World War. The area was first known as Penkridge, the name of a neighbouring farm on which a Postal Agency had been established in 1911. It was operated in conjunction with Mr. Cashel, but later a missionary from Mutambara took it over until 1934 when he emigrated to South Africa. The locality was originally known as Melsetter North, but as this was confused with Melsetter, other names were used, depending who was running the Post Office. The district was inhabited by descendants of the Steyn families, who had arrived with the early trekking parties, and one such post office became known as Johannesrust, in memory of Johannes Steyn who had farmed there, but there was confusion with mail addressed to Johannesrust and Johannesburg. As mail moved slowly in these days, such misdirections caused much consternation amongst the local residents and it was decided by the North Melsetter Farmers Association that the name should be changed to Tandaai, after a river of the same name. The farm on which the agency was situated was called Kranskop, after a high hill near the junction of Tandaai and Umvumvumvu Rivers. The change occurred on 1 September 1929, three years after Johannesrust first came into being. Cashel became the official designation of area when a Post Office was provided in 1957. A Rural Council Office and Police Station were later established in the village. Cashel and South Melsetter was changed to Chipinga in 1907.

Evidence of human inhabitation in Cashel possibly dates back to the Iron Age, the likely timeframe from which several cave paintings date back to. Rock paintings in nearby mountains indicate the arrival of Bushmen to the area, depicting scenes of Bushmen hunting elephants, buffalo, elands, reedbucks, and other animals. All of the trek families met at Schoemansdrif on the Vaal river on 8 May 1895 and 17 wagons and 114 people set off for Gazaland. After an arduous journey through the Transvaal, into Bechuanaland, through the Tuli block and across rivers and over mountains and the odd encounter with lions, they arrived in the Umvumvumvu valley on Christmas Eve 1895. A local school was built and was originally called Johannesrust school, later Tandaai and finally Cashel school. "Cashel lies in the shadow of the Black Mountain an impressive range forming part of the Chimanimani mountains. The local hotel, which was a favourite holiday resort, was named the Black Mountain Inn. Nearby is the Nyanyadzi Irrigation scheme, which consists of a series of plots allocated to African farmers. Here the soil is particularly rich and good results are obtained in growing bananas, wheat and other cash crops. The scheme was originally conceived by the late Mr. E. D. Alvord, a former Director of African Agriculture, and the first agricultural missionary to come to Africa. He worked at Mutambara after arriving from America, and it was while living here that he saw the potential of the Nyanyadzi scheme." Despite this, the few who remained told the New York Times they would remain regardless of what happened, in spite of deteriorating military control by the white Rhodesian government.

Tropical Cyclone Idai (/ɪˈdaɪ, ˈiːdaɪ/), one of the worst tropical cyclones on record to affect Africa and the Southern Hemisphere, hit the region in March 2019. The storm caused catastrophic damage, and a humanitarian crisis in Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and Malawi, leaving more than 1,300 people dead and many more missing. Heavy rains fell across much of eastern Zimbabwe as the cyclone meandered along the nation's border with Mozambique. In Chimanimani District, where Cashel is located, the storm dumped between to in the area. Widespread flash flooding ensued, claiming at least 169 lives in Chimanimani District. An unknown number of bodies were swept into neighboring areas of Mozambique, and at least 82 were confirmed to have been buried as far as into that nation. At least 232 people were injured in Chimanimani. Destruction of numerous bridges and roads in eastern Chimanimani isolated many residents.