Kew, New South Wales is a small town in the

Mid North Coast The Mid North Coast is a country region in the north-east of the state of New South Wales, Australia. The region covers the mid northern coast of the state, beginning from Port Stephens north of Sydney, and extending as far north as Woolgoo ...

region of

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, Australia in the

Port Macquarie-Hastings Council Port Macquarie-Hastings Council is a local government area in the Mid North Coast region of New South Wales, Australia. The area is located adjacent to the Hastings River, the Pacific Highway, the Oxley Highway and the North Coast railway ...

local government area. Kew is one of the communities that make up the

Camden Haven Camden Haven is a parish in the Mid North Coast region of New South Wales, Australia, approximately 30 km south of the major regional centre of Port Macquarie. The harbour is located where the Camden Haven River empties into the Tasman ...

district of Port Macquarie-Hastings. Kew is located at the intersection of Nancy Bird Walton Drive (the former Pacific Highway) and Ocean Drive, the road to the larger town of Laurieton. Kew has a visitor information centre, a pub, a post office, a small police station, a motel, a roadhouse and a general store. Traffic congestion along this stretch of the highway led to the construction of a new dual carriageway bypass of Kew to the east of the township as part of a highway upgrade from

Coopernook Coopernook is a small town in mid-north New South Wales, Australia (post code 2426). It is located 24 kilometres north of Taree and 11 kilometres west of Harrington and is administered by Mid-Coast Council. At the 2016 census, Coopernook and the ...

to Herons Creek. Construction commenced in November 2007 and was completed in December 2009. The largest school in the district, Camden Haven High School, is located 2 km east of Kew on Ocean Drive. Kew is home to the Big Axe. Kew Country Club is both a bowling and golf club and is located 100 metres west of the Pacific Highway traffic lights. The club has a lawn bowling green and two synthetic bowling greens. The golf course is eighteen holes with bent grass greens. Kew is served by several daily coaches along the Pacific Highway, and three NSW TrainLink XPT services at Kendall railway station on the North Coast Line 2 km to the west.

Population

In the 2016 Census, there were 1,089 people in Kew. 77.9% of people were born in Australia and 87.1% of people spoke only English at home. The most common responses for religion were Anglican 29.3%, No Religion 23.2% and Catholic 19.4%.

Notable people

Nancy Bird Walton Nancy Bird Walton, (16 October 1915 – 13 January 2009) was a pioneering Australian aviator, known as "The Angel of the Outback", and the founder and patron of the Australian Women Pilots' Association. In the 1930s, she became a fully ...

(1915 – 2009), world-famous aviator

References

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