page_title: Hill End, New South Wales
section_title: Hill End today
hierarchical_section_title: Hill End, New South Wales / Hill End today
caption_attribution_description: English: Another of the original buildings still standing and operating as it did decades ago. This is the Hill End B&amp;B (Hosies) Gifts Crafts &amp; Collectables.
context_page_description: Hill End is a former gold mining town in New South Wales, Australia. The town is located in the Bathurst Regional Council local Government area.
context_section_description: Hill End is classified as a historical site by the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS), however it is still home to a handful of residents operating the local pub, general store, cake store and antique store. The NPWS runs a museum just off the main road which contains many original photos and items of equipment from the busy days of the gold rush. A more extensive museum, the privately owned History Hill, is located a few kilometers from the town on the Bathurst Road.
  NPWS has installed signs around the town to give visitors an idea of what was once in place on the now empty lots of land. Currently only a handful of buildings remain in their original form. However most of those buildings still serve the purpose they did back during the gold rush. Access to the town's lookouts is via gravel roads. A walking track in the town leads to a mine and other ruins.
  The most popular tourist activity in Hill End is gold panning, with some of the older members of the community running gold panning tours in the same fossicking areas that yielded the gold which brought on the gold rush. Metal detectors or gold panning are not allowed within the historic site, however there is a fossicking area just past the cemetery, off the Mudgee Road.
  The Royal Hotel and the local Bed and Breakfasts offer accommodation, and there is a range of camping options within the town limits.
caption: Hill End B&B (Hosies) Gifts Crafts & Collectables
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