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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.
[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 in 1810, straddling Elizabeth Drive and Mamre Road. The other was 500 acres 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 Catholic Garden Cemetery are located on Western Road. The southern border is Fifteenth Avenue. To the north Mamre Road runs southeast-northwest through the suburb and there are several reservoirs, including the main one which Kemps Creek flows into, confluencing with South Creek a short while after. 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 Obervatory 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, located on Cross Street, Christadelphian Heritage College, also on Cross Street, and Mamre Christian College, Trinity Catholic Primary and Emmaus Catholic College located on Bakers Lane to the north.
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