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Kempsey, New South Wales, is located where the Pacific Highway crosses the Macleay River. It is roughly 450 kilometres north of Sydney and 15 kilometres inland from the coast of the Pacific Ocean on the Pacific Highway and the North Coast Railway. The Kempsey Shire had a population of 27,831 in 2003 according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics. The indigenous inhabitants of the Macleay Valley are the Dunghutti People. Enoch William Rudder is credited with founding the settlement. He arrived from Birmingham in 1834 and bought land on the southern bank of the river in 1836, at what was then the limit of authorized settlement (the boundary of County Macquarie). He was initially attracted by redcedar cutting opportunities but planned also to profit by selling parts of his land. He had riverside blocks surveyed and established a private town, with the first blocks sold in November 1836. He called it Kempsey because the surrounding areas reminded him of the Kempsey Valley in Worcestershire. The collapse in redcedar prices in the early 1840s nearly led to the failure of the town.[1]