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Town in New South Wales, Australia
Kew
is a small town in the
Mid North Coast
region of
New South Wales
,
Australia
in the
Port Macquarie-Hastings Council
local government area. Kew is one of the communities that make up the
Camden Haven
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
to
Herons Creek
. Construction commenced in November 2007
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and was completed in December 2009.
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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.
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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%.
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