Kempton, Tasmania

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Kempton (Australian postcode 7030) is a township on the Midland Highway (Tasmania) north of Hobart, Tasmania.

It was named after early administrator and businessman Anthony Fenn Kemp who established the property Mount Vernon immediately to the north of where the township later grew in the 1820s. A low rainfall region of plains and low hills, it is mostly used for grazing sheep.

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Coordinates: 42°31′S, 147°12′E

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