Kemps Creek, New South Wales

Infobox Australian Place | type = suburb
name = Kemps Creek
city = Sydney
state = NSW


caption =
lga = City of Penrith
lga2 = City of Liverpool
postcode = 2178
est =
pop =
area =
propval =
stategov = Smithfield
fedgov = Prospect
near-nw = Orchard Hills
near-n = Erskine Park
near-ne = Eastern Creek
near-w = Badgerys Creek
near-e = Horsley Park
near-sw = Rossmore
near-s = Austral
near-se = Mount Vernon
dist1 = 39
dir1 = west
location1= Sydney CBD

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.

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. [cite web | url= http://www.liverpool.nsw.gov.au/adetailedhistoryofliverpool.htm#suburbs | title=History of our suburbs: Kemps Creek | publisher=Liverpool City Council | accessdate=2008-04-12 ]

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. "UBD CityLink Street Directory" Sydney Maps 225, 226, 245 & 246, 19th Edition, Universal Publishers, 2007, Published in Australia ISBN 0-7319-1966-1]

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.

Transport

Kemps Creek is connected by the Westlink M7 Motorway.

chools

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.

References

External links

* [http://www.penrithcity.nsw.gov.au/index.asp?id=447 Penrith Local Suburb Profile]
* [http://www.hcs.nsw.edu.au/joomla/ Christadelphian Heritage College Sydney]