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Welcome to Hay, NSW

Hay is a town in the western Riverina region of south western New South Wales, located 719km from Sydney and 409km from Melbourne.

The present site of Hay was located at the junction of four large ‘squatter’ properties, one of which was occupied by the Lang Brothers where an important river crossing was located. Stockmen would frequently camp at the site before crossing the river with their stock and even now the area is known as Langs Crossing. The township of Hay was named after Sir John Hay, a local pastoralist and Member of Parliament, after the town was gazetted in 1859.

Development of the town progressed with the original courthouse built in 1860. Soon after, Cobb & Co. made Hay the headquarters for their Victoria and Riverina operations and set up a coach factory which became the largest coach factory in Australia outside Sydney. Hay is one of Australia’s leading wool growing and sheep meat producing areas, with the area home to around 26 parent studs.