Daylesford is a town located in the foothills of the Great Dividing Range, within the Shire of Hepburn, Victoria, Australia, approximately 114 kilometres north-west of Melbourne.

The town's numerous spas, restaurants and galleries are popular alongside the many gardens and country-house-conversion styled bed and breakfasts.

Other finds quickly followed and a townsite was surveyed and founded in 1854, initially named Wombat but soon renamed Daylesford after the birthplace of Warren Hastings, the first governor-general of India.

Agricultural activity followed the gold rush, with many of the Chinese in the area also operating market gardens, and Italians in particular establishing vineyards.

By that time, its population had risen to approximately 7,000, with around 3,400 diggers involved in mining efforts, and the town's first council was formed.

The town fell out of favour as a tourist destination in the Great Depression, with visitors' interest returning in the early 1980s.

[5] On 30 June 1867, three boys from Connells Gully, near Table Hill (William Graham, 7, his brother Thomas, 4, and Alfred Burman, 5), wandered into the bush near Daylesford.

[24] The Daylesford Spa Country Railway currently operates a Sunday tourist service to Musk and Bullarto along the line towards Carlsruhe.

[26] In November 2023, a car crashed into the beer garden of the Royal Daylesford Hotel, resulting in the deaths of five people.