Kempton, Tasmania

Kempton, Tasmania

Infobox Australian Place | type = town
name = Kempton
state = tas


caption =
lga = Southern Midlands Council
postcode = 7030
est =
pop = 310
elevation=
maxtemp =
mintemp =
rainfall =
stategov = Lyons
fedgov = Lyons
dist1 = 48
dir1 = N
location1= Hobart
dist2 = 6
dir2 = N
location2= Dysart

Kempton is a township on the Midland Highway north of Hobart, Tasmania. At the 2001 census, the town had a population of 310.Census 2001 AUS
id=UCL608200
name=Kempton (L) (Urban Centre/Locality)
accessdate=2007-08-24
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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.

A railway line connected the town with Hobart from 1891 until 1947 ["A Short History of the Apsley Branch Line" Stokes, H.J.W. Australian Railway Historical Society Bulletin, July, 1971 pp152-160] .

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