Kew, New South Wales
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| name = Kew
| city = Camden Haven
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Kew ({{IPAc-en|k|j|uː}}) is a small town in the Mid North Coast region of New South Wales, Australia in the Port Macquarie-Hastings Council local government area. Kew is one of the communities that make up the Camden Haven district of Port Macquarie-Hastings.
Kew is located at the intersection of Nancy Bird Walton Drive (the former Pacific Highway) and Ocean Drive, the road to the larger town of Laurieton. Kew has a visitor information centre,
a pub, a post office, a motel, a roadhouse, and a general store. Traffic congestion along this stretch of the highway led to the construction of a new dual carriageway bypass of Kew to the east of the township as part of a highway upgrade from Coopernook to Herons Creek. Construction commenced in November 2007{{cite web |url=http://www.c2hc.com.au/html/stages_work_b.html |title=Stages of work |website=Coopernook to Herons Creek |access-date=8 July 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090712163952/http://www.c2hc.com.au/html/stages_work_b.html |archive-date=12 July 2009}} and was completed in December 2009.{{cite news|last1=Dwyer|first1=Kate|title=Kew bypassed|newspaper=Camden Haven Courier|url=http://www.camdencourier.com.au/story/1112485/kew-bypassed/|date=22 December 2009|access-date=27 December 2015}}
The largest school in the district, Camden Haven High School, is located 2 km east of Kew on Ocean Drive.
Kew is home to the Big Axe.
Kew Country Club is both a bowling and golf club and is located 200 metres west of the roundabout where Nancy Bird Walton Drive and Ocean Drive intersect. The club has a lawn bowling green and two synthetic bowling greens. The golf course is eighteen holes with bent grass greens. Kew is served by several daily coaches along the Pacific Highway, and three NSW TrainLink XPT services at Kendall railway station on the North Coast Line 2 km to the west.
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Notable people
- Nancy Bird Walton (1915 – 2009), world-famous aviator{{cite news|last1=Veitch|first1=Harriet|last2=Brown|first2=Malcolm|title=A Little Bird who achieved big things|url=https://www.smh.com.au/national/a-little-bird-who-achieved-big-things-20090114-gdt9p9.html|access-date=5 February 2017|work=The Sydney Morning Herald|date=14 January 2009|language=en}}
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See also
- {{Wikivoyage-inline|Kew (New South Wales)}}
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{{Mid North Coast NSW |state=autocollapse}}
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