Hunter Hilltop Colour:N/A Structures like this one were

Structures like this one were the physical residue of the selector's gamble: 320 acres of Crown land for £1 per acre

This was the maintenance side of a factory that at its peak employed 139 maintenance workers alone

The Sheriffs' Office sits inside Western Village's frontier town precinct

single-room shelters in a landscape that demanded practicality above everything else

display panel long dead

Hunter Hilltop Colour:N/A Structures like this one wereA derelict dwelling sits on an exposed Hunter hilltop, its broken windows open to the valley below. Structures like this represent the furthest reach of rural settlement across New South Wales, built by selectors and graziers and left behind as the land became unworkable. Part of the A Place to Call Home series.