Kew, New South Wales is a small town in the Mid North Coast region of New South Wales

New South Wales

New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...

, Australia

Australia

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 in the Port Macquarie-Hastings Council local government area. Kew is one of the communities that make up the Camden Haven

Camden Haven, New South Wales

Camden Haven is a small harbour 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 Sea....

 district of Port Macquarie-Hastings.

Kew is located at the intersection of the Pacific Highway

Pacific Highway (Australia)

The Pacific Highway is a major transport route along part of the east coast of Australia and is part of Australia's national route 1.It is 960 km long and links Sydney, the capital of New South Wales, to Brisbane, the capital of Queensland, along the coast, via Gosford, Newcastle, Taree, Port...

 and Ocean Drive, the road to the larger town of Laurieton

Laurieton, New South Wales

Laurieton is a coastal town on the Mid North Coast of the Australian state of New South Wales. Laurieton is the largest town in the Camden Haven district. Laurieton is 365 km north of Sydney and 42 km south of Port Macquarie...

. Kew has 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 has led to the construction of a new dual carriageway

Dual carriageway

A dual carriageway is a class of highway with two carriageways for traffic travelling in opposite directions separated by a central reservation...

 bypass of Kew to the east of the township as part of a highway upgrade from Coopernook

Coopernook, New South Wales

Coopernook is a village in mid-north New South Wales, Australia . It is located 24 kilometres north of Taree and 11 kilometres west of Harrington and is administered by Greater Taree City Council. At the 2006 census, Coopernook had a population of 365 people. It was formerly situated on the Pacific...

 to Herons Creek

Herons Creek, New South Wales

Herons Creek is a small township on the North Coast of New South Wales, Australia. The North Coast railway line passes through, and a station existed at the site between 1917 and 1974. Film director Baz Luhrmann was raised in the town.- References :...

. Construction commenced in November 2007.

The largest school in the district, Camden Haven High School

Camden Haven High School

Camden Haven High School is a rural school in New South Wales, Australia. Consisting of over a thousand students, the school presents both distance educational and face-to-face education. The school is 2 km off the Pacific Highway turning East at the Kew traffic lights intersection.Camden...

, is located 2 km east of Kew on Ocean Drive.

Kew is home to the Big Axe

Australia's Big Things

The Big Things of Australia are a loosely related set of large structures or sculptures. There are estimated to be over 150 such objects around the country, the first being the Big Scotsman in Medindie, Adelaide, which was built in 1963....

.

Kew Bowling Club is located on Camden Haven Golf Course, 100 metres west of the Pacific Highway traffic lights. Kew is served by several daily coaches along the Pacific Highway, and three CountryLink

CountryLink

CountryLink is the operator of passenger rail services in country New South Wales, Australia and into Queensland and Victoria. It is an operating brand of the Rail Corporation New South Wales, a government-owned entity...

 XPT

CountryLink XPT

The XPT is the main long-distance passenger train used in regional New South Wales, Australia. It operates on key eastern seaboard routes including the Sydney-Melbourne and Sydney-Brisbane services...

 services at Kendall

Kendall, New South Wales

Kendall is a town on the Mid North Coast of New South Wales, Australia. Kendall was originally named Camden Heads, as it is located on the Camden Haven River. In was renamed Kendall, in 1891, after the Australian poet Henry Kendall, and not, as some tourists suspect, after the similarly-spelled...

 railway station on the North Coast Line

North Coast railway line, New South Wales

The North Coast Line is the primary rail route in the Mid North Coast and Northern Rivers regions of New South Wales, and forms a major part of the Sydney-Brisbane rail corridor....

 2 km to the west.

World famous aviatrix Nancy Bird Walton was born in Kew, in 1915.