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Far Hills is a borough in the Somerset Hills of northern Somerset County, New Jersey, within the Raritan Valley region.

The name Far Hills traces to 1887, when Elizabeth Schley, wife of land developer Grant Schley, looked over the ridgelines of her brother-in-law Evander Schley's farm purchases and remarked on the beauty of the distant 'far hills' she saw from the carriage.

Grant Schley personally funded much of the young village's infrastructure, including a school, church, firehouse, and the fairgrounds that became the J. Malcolm Belcher Fairgrounds.

Far Hills was incorporated as a borough from portions of Bernards Township under an act of the New Jersey Legislature passed on April 7, 1921, subject to a referendum held on May 12, 1921.

Far Hills is a dry town where the sale of alcohol is prohibited by law.

The borough preserves its estate character through 10-acre minimum zoning, with large private properties surrounding a small village center across its roughly 4.9 square miles.

The 2020 census counted 924 residents in Far Hills, up just five people from 919 in 2010; the 2010 census counted 376 households in the borough.

Far Hills hosts the Far Hills Race Meeting, one of the largest and most prestigious steeplechase events in the United States, held each October at Moorland Farm and drawing tens of thousands of spectators to a borough of fewer than 1,000 residents.

The Leonard J. Buck Garden, a 33-acre public botanical garden operated by the Somerset County Park Commission, is located in Far Hills, adjacent to the Moggy Hollow Natural Area, a National Natural Landmark.

Natirar, a 491-acre estate spanning Far Hills, Peapack-Gladstone, and Bedminster, was sold in 2003 by Mohammed VI, King of Morocco, to the Somerset County Park Commission.