Hayle

Hayle is a small town, civil parish and cargo port in the Penwith district of West Cornwall. The town, whose name is derived from the Cornish heyl, meaning estuary, is situated at the southern end of St Ives Bay on the estuary of the Hayle River, approximately 9 mi south-east of the town of by road.
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  • Type: Town with 8,210 residents
  • Description: town and civil parish in west Cornwall, England
  • Also known as: Hayle civil parish”, “Hayle CP”, “Hayle, Cornwall”, and “St Erth Urban

Places of Interest

Highlights include Hayle railway station and Lelant Saltings railway station.

Railway station
serves the small town of Hayle, , United Kingdom. Great Western Railway manage the station and operate most train services.

Railway station
opened on 27 May 1978 to provide a park and ride facility for visitors to , , England. It is situated on the A3074 road close to the junction with the A30 near the foot of the hill up to village.

Railway station
is on the waterfront of the below the village of in , United Kingdom.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include St Erth and Carbis Bay.

is a civil parish and village in , England, United Kingdom. takes its name from Saint Erc, one of the many Irish saints who brought Christianity to Cornwall during the Dark Ages, and is at the old crossing point of the .

is a seaside resort and village in , England. It lies 1 mile southeast of , on the western coast of , on the Atlantic coast. The South West Coast Path passes above the beach.

is a seaside town on the north coast of West Cornwall, near . In 2011 its population was 11,226. This fishing village grew up into a seaside resort, and has long attracted artists.

Hayle

Latitude
50.1871° or 50° 11′ 14″ north
Longitude
-5.4178° or 5° 25′ 4″ west
Population
8,210
Elevation
20 feet (6 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB HAY
Open location code
9C2P5HPJ+VV
Open­Street­Map ID
node 29172762
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2647258
Wiki­data ID
Q1010221
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Welsh—“Hayle” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: Hayle
  • Basque: Hayle
  • Bengali: হালি
  • Breton: Hayle
  • Breton: Heyl
  • Bulgarian: Хейл
  • Cebuano: Hayle
  • Chinese: Hayle
  • Chinese: 海尔
  • Chinese: 海爾
  • Cornish: Heyl
  • Dutch: Hayle
  • French: Hayle
  • Galician: Hayle
  • German: Hayle
  • Gujarati: હેલ
  • Irish: Hayle
  • Italian: Hayle
  • Japanese: ヘイル
  • Kannada: ಹೇಯ್ಲ್
  • Korean: 헤일리
  • Ladin: Hayle
  • Latin: Hayle
  • Lithuanian: Heilas
  • Min Nan Chinese: Hayle
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Hayle
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Hayle
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Heyl
  • Norwegian: Hayle
  • Persian: هایل
  • Polish: Hayle
  • Portuguese: Hayle
  • Romanian: Hayle
  • Russian: Хейл
  • South Azerbaijani: هایل
  • Spanish: Hayle
  • Swedish: Hayle
  • Tamil: ஹயலே
  • Telugu: హాయ్లె
  • Turkish: Hayle
  • Ukrainian: Гейл
  • Urdu: ہایلی
  • Volapük: Hayle
  • Volapük: Heyl
  • Waray (Philippines): Hayle
  • Welsh: Hayle
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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 Wikivoyage page “Hayle”. Photo: Tim Green, CC BY 2.0.