Hillgrove

Such history !

If you are interested in industrial history then this is a fascinating place to visit. See how 3500 people lived in this now tiny village. See where the hotels and shops were. There is a small comm...

Fascinating historic "ghost town"

On our travels along the Waterfall Way from Armidale to Coffs Harbour, we took the short diversion to the township of Hillgrove. This is a "semi-abandoned" town with a history of gold and antimony mi...

Historic Hilgrove

Its a nice little spot with a good museum. It has an old world feel. I recommend going to check it out and grabbing a coffee while there.

Fascinating drive

Very interesting drive through the town to imagine it when it was a booming town. The little signs in front of the now mostly empty town will set your imagination on fire. Fantastic was to spend an af...

Lots of plaques beside empty fields

You get the impression from reading about this town that it’s a “near ghost town” but it actually has 95 inhabitants and almost all of the original town buildings from 1900 no longer exist (apart from...