Ebor, New South Wales
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Ebor is a small town in northern New South Wales, Australia, situated about 88km (about 55mi) east of Armidale, and about one third of the way between Armidale and the coast. Population in the year 2000 is about 50. There is a general store, a pub, and a primary school.
Ebor is at fairly high altitude, about 1350 metres, and by Australian standards has cold winters with overnight frost and occasional light snow falls.
The surrounding district has sheep grazing and some tourism. The main tourist attractions are several spectacular waterfalls (Ebor Falls, Wollomombi Falls), the cool temperate rain-forest walks in New England National Park and recreational trout fishing.
There is some dispute as to whether Ebor should be known as a town. Given the size of it at best it could claim to be a village however in reality it would be more appropriate to refer to it as a hamlet. This situation has arisen from wide spread ignorance of the terms of populated areas. On another scale cities that are located in rural areas are usually wrongfully referred to as towns by sole virtue of the fact that they happen to be located in these rural areas.Template:Australia-geo-stub