Hotels in Hay, New South Wales

Former Bridge Hotel

The hotel was established in 1869 as a Temperance Hotel, obtained a licence in 1870 and closed as an hotel in 1921.

Former Caledonian Hotel

Sad news, the Caledonian Hotel, Hay's oldest building burnt down approx late 2006

- Jon Graham

Former Highway Inn Hotel

Hotel established in 1940 with the licence of the ex Terminus Hotel.

Closed c2006-7

Former One Tree Hotel

Drive north out of Hay on the Cobb Highway and enter the New South Wales "Outback," land of the famed One Tree Hotel and Banjo Paterson's "Hay and Hell and Booligal." Some 38 kilometres from Hay you will see what is left of the famous and historic "One Tree Hotel." The hotel "Finch's Public House" or "Finch's Inn" was built in 1862 and was purchased by William Clark from Alexander Finch..

The hotel became known as the One Tree Hotel because of one large gum tree growing on a clay pan near a shallow fresh water well, about half a kilometre away from the hotel. What a famous landmark it was, as it stood against the far horizons. The bar of this hotel is still the same, as it was when it was in use some 50 years ago. The present owners, the McQuade family, have owned the hotel since the 1880's.

Article: "Pub Trivia from Picture Australia"
One Tree Hotel No.273.
Description:
A building which is an accurate 1903 replication of an 1862 hotel, the result of instructions by the Australian Mutual Fire Insurance Society after a fire, to replace the hotel with one identical to it. The building is of simple split pine log construction with verandahs on three sides and a hipped corrugated iron roof. Twelve paned windows are placed between the four panel doors which open along the verandahs. Detached kitchen and small weatherboard shed to rear. Internally the simple joinery and some fittings remain. Nothing remains of cattle yards and stables.

The first hotel known as Finch's Public House was built by Alexander Finch in 1862 near a large gum tree on the otherwise almost treeless plain stretching from Hay to Booligal. It soon became a landmark and the subject of many references in the poetry and prose writings of Henry Lawson and A B Paterson, One Tree often being referred to as Hell. The tree was destroyed in a storm on 1 January 1900.
History: Not Available
Condition and Integrity:
First building (1862) destroyed by fire and replaced with identical building (due to dispute over insurance) 1903. Stage post and watering place for Cobb and Co and passing mobs 1870-1900. Delicenced 1942.

Former Terminus Hotel

Situated opposite the railway station, the Terminus Hotel was established in 1880 and closed in 1940 with the licence being transferred to the Highway Inn Hotel.