Haywards

Haywards is a small hillside suburb in the near , New Zealand. It is notable for its large electrical substation, which is the main switching point for the Wellington region, and the home of the North Island converter station for the HVDC Inter-Island, which links the North and South Island electricity networks together.
Tap on a place
to explore it
Photo: Karora, Public domain.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Manor Park railway station and Silver Stream Railway.

Railway station
is a suburban railway station serving the suburb of in , . The station is located on the Hutt Valley section of the Wairarapa Line, 23.7 km northeast of .

Museum
is a heritage railway at in the near , New Zealand. It regularly operates preserved New Zealand Railways Department locomotives along a restored section of the Hutt Valley Line before a deviation was built in 1954.

Railway station
was a station on the Hutt Valley Line section of the Wairarapa Line in from 1908 until 28 February 1954, when the Melling-Belmont section of the line and the first rail bridge at Silverstream was closed.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Manor Park and Pōmare.

Suburb
, a northern suburb of City, lies in the south of the of New Zealand. The suburb separates the western bank of the Hutt River from State Highway 2. The suburb is served by the

Quarter
Pomare is a residential neighbourhood of , in the of New Zealand's . It comprises the northern part of the suburb of , and includes the Pomare Railway Station and Pomare School.

Suburb
is a suburb of in , just under 7 km south-west of the Upper Hutt CBD. It is in the lower part of the of New Zealand at the southern end of , close to the Taitā Gorge, which separates Upper Hutt from . is situated 3 km east of Haywards.

Haywards

Latitude
-41.15031° or 41° 9′ 1″ south
Longitude
174.97865° or 174° 58′ 43″ east
Population
384
Elevation
84 metres (276 feet)
Named after
Thomas Hayward
Open location code
4VCPRXXH+VF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2231108837
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­hamlet
Geo­Names ID
2190125
Wiki­data ID
Q5687385
This page is based on OpenStreetMap, GeoNames, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikipedia.
We’d love your help improving our open data sources. Thank you for contributing.

Satellite Map

Discover Haywards from above in high-definition satellite imagery.

In Other Languages

From Dutch to Turkish—“Haywards” goes by many names.
  • Dutch: Haywards
  • French: Haywards
  • Maori: Haywards
  • Russian: Хайвордс
  • Turkish: Haywards

Places with the Same Name

Discover other places named “Haywards”.

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Holborn and Sylvan Estate.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Manor Park Golf Club and Manor Park Golf Sanctuary.

Greater Wellington: Must-Visit Destinations

Delve into Wellington, City, Lower Hutt, and Porirua.

Curious Places to Discover

Uncover intriguing places from every corner of the globe.
About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Haywards”. Photo: Karora, Public domain.