Kew

Worth seeing in and around Kew

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

1. 01
   Swinburne University of Technology

   The Swinburne University of Technology is a public research university in Melbourne, Australia. It is the modern descendant of the Eastern Suburbs Technical College established in 1908, renamed Swinburne Technical College in 1913 after its co-founders George and Ethel Swinburne.

   1.8 km · university in Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Our Lady of Victories Basilica

   Our Lady of Victories Basilica is a Roman Catholic church located in the Melbourne suburb of Camberwell. Romanesque Revival in style, it was designed by architect Augustus Andrew Fritsch and was completed in 1918.

   3.8 km · church building in Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia
3. 03
   University of Divinity

   The University of Divinity is an Australian collegiate university with a specialised focus in divinity and associated disciplines. It is constituted by twelve theological colleges from seven denominations and three schools.

   500 m · collegiate university in Australia · Wikipedia
4. 04
   St Ignatius' Church of Richmond

   St Ignatius' Church, Richmond is a Roman Catholic church located in the Melbourne suburb of Richmond, Victoria, Australia. It is one of the largest churches in Melbourne outside of the central business district.

   3.4 km · church building in Melbourne, Australia · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Toorak House

   Toorak House is a mansion located in Melbourne, Australia built in 1849 by well-known Melbourne merchant James Jackson. It is notable for its use as Melbourne's first Government House and having inspired the name for the suburb of Toorak.

   3.8 km · mansion in Melbourne, Australia · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Yarra Bend Park

   The Yarra Bend Park is a 260-hectare metropolitan park located in Kew and Fairfield, inner east suburbs of Melbourne, in Victoria, Australia. Situated 4 kilometres northeast of the city centre of Melbourne, the park is the largest area of remnant natural bushland in inner Melbourne.

   2.1 km · park in Melbourne, Australia · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Kanes Bridge

   Kane's Bridge, also written as Kanes Bridge and previously known as Kane's Suspension Bridge, is a wooden suspension bridge located in Yarra Bend Park, Melbourne, Australia over the Yarra River, linking the inner-city suburbs of Fairfield and Kew. The bridge is for use exclusively by pedestrians, with cyclists required to dismount before entering the bridge.

   2 km · bridge in Boroondara City, Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia
8. 08
   Lyon Housemuseum

   The Lyon Housemuseum is a hybrid residence and contemporary art museum located on Cotham Road, Kew, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia. The Housemuseum displays the Lyon Collection of Australian contemporary art in a purpose designed building.

   1.6 km · art gallery in Melbourne, Australia · Wikipedia
9. 09
   Macleay Park

   Macleay Park is a multi-sports complex in the Melbourne suburb of Balwyn North. It hosts Australian rules football, cricket, soccer, baseball and netball matches.

   3.9 km · park in Melbourne, Australia · Wikipedia
10. 10
    Niagara Galleries

    Niagara Galleries shows contemporary and Modernist Australian art in Richmond, an inner suburb of Melbourne, from a terrace which has been substantially remodelled in a postmodern style.

    3.9 km · art gallery in Richmond, Australia showing Modernist art · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Getting to Kew

Airports

Melbourne (MEL), 23 km · Melbourne Avalon (AVV), 56 km

Stations

Auburn, 2.2 km · Camberwell, 3.3 km · Burnley, 3.2 km · East Richmond, 3.8 km · North Richmond, 3.4 km

• Geelong/Melbourne → Kew

  4 km · quickest by road, 14 min · A$0.5–1
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• Hobart (Cambridge) → Kew

  597 km · quickest by air, 4h 51m · A$210–310
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• Adelaide → Kew

  659 km · quickest by air, 5h 8m · A$220–330
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