Kemps Creek, New South Wales

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Kemps Creek
SydneyNSW
Postcode: 2178
Location: 39 km (24 mi) west of Sydney CBD
LGA:
State District: Smithfield
Federal Division: Prospect
Suburbs around Kemps Creek:
Orchard Hills Erskine Park Eastern Creek
Badgerys Creek Kemps Creek Horsley Park
Rossmore Austral Mount Vernon

Kemps Creek is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Kemps Creek is located 39 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government areas of the City of Penrith and City of Liverpool. It is part of the Greater Western Sydney region.

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[edit] History

Kemps Creek is named after Anthony Fenn Kemp (1773-1868), who was granted two adjoining properties in this district. The first grant here was 300 acres (1.2 km2) in 1810, straddling Elizabeth Drive and Mamre Road. The other was 500 acres (2.0 km2) granted in 1820 and named Mount Vernon. A school was established in 1885 called Exeter Farm School after the large property subdivision in neighbouring Badgerys Creek but the name was changed a few years later to Kemps Creek Public School.[1]

[edit] Commercial Area

Elizabeth Drive runs through the suburb horizontally, and on it are the Rural Fire Service, petrol stations, telephone, post office and Bill Anderson Park, which has a playground and toilet facilities. [2]

[edit] Geography

The suburb is bound to the west by South Creek, and to the southeast by Kemps Creek. A number of reservoirs dot the landscape. The Novartis Research Centre and Sydney Catholic Lawn Cemetery are located on Western Road. The southern border is Fifteenth Avenue. To the north Mamre Road runs southeast-northwest through the suburb. Kemps Creek flows into the main reservoir and then joins South Creek. The Mills Cross, a radio telescope, is situated between South Creek and the main reservoir, near Argus Technologies. The University of Sydney runs the Fleurs Radio Observatory and Fleurs Farm sites. Industry is present in such forms as Roladuct. In the far north of the suburb Ropes Creek flows in the northwest in a south-north direction and in the northwest, west of Mamre Road, is Cosgrove Hill. The northern boundary is the Sydney Water Supply Pipeline which goes from Prospect Reservoir to the west.[2]

[edit] Transport

Kemps Creek is connected by the Westlink M7 Motorway.

[edit] Schools

Kemps Creek has five schools, Kemps Creek Primary, Christadelphian Heritage College Sydney both located on Cross Street, and Mamre Christian College, Trinity Catholic Primary and Emmaus Catholic College located on Bakers Lane to the north.

[edit] References

  1. ^ "History of our suburbs: Kemps Creek". Liverpool City Council. Retrieved on 2008-04-12.
  2. ^ a b UBD CityLink Street Directory Sydney Maps 225, 226, 245 & 246, 19th Edition, Universal Publishers, 2007, Published in Australia ISBN 0-7319-1966-1

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