The Wombat Hotel is set to reopen this Friday after 15 months of closure. Photo: Supplied.

For more than 160 years, the low-slung Wombat Hotel, perched alongside the Olympic Highway south of Young, has seen it all.

Bushrangers and goldminers once rumbled through its doors; today it welcomes bikers, car enthusiasts, travellers, locals, and the curious passing through.

Anzac breakfasts, birthdays, pub lunches and raucous parties have all played out within its walls, each a chapter in the town’s story.

When it closed 15 months ago, the Hilltops shire felt the silence keenly, and the small village of Wombat was left unusually quiet.

Now, after a long silence, the pub is preparing to once more throw open its doors thanks to a couple who just couldn’t shake the feeling some places are too a

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