BATHURST, a city of Bathurst county, New South Wales, Australia. Pop. (1933) 10,415. It is situated on the south bank of the Macquarie river, at an elevation of 2,153 ft., in a fertile undulating plain on the west side of the Blue Mountains. Bathurst is the centre of the chief wheat-growing district of New South Wales, while gold, copper and silver are extensively mined in its vicinity. There are railway works, coach factories, tanneries, breweries, flour-mills and manufactures of boots and shoes. The town was founded in 1815 by Governor Macquarie, taking its name from the 3rd Earl Bathurst, then secretary of state for the colonies, and it has been a municipality since 1862.