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: Hayle railway station and Lelant Saltings railway station.

Railway station
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serves the small town of Hayle, , United Kingdom.

Railway station
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opened on 27 May 1978…

Railway station
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is on the waterfront of the…

Places in the Area

Nearby places include St Erth and Carbis Bay.

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is a civil parish and village in , England, United Kingdom.

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is a seaside resort and village in , England.

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is a seaside town on the north coast of West Cornwall, near .

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)
UN/LOCODE
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: “Heyl”
  • Bulgarian: “Хейл”
  • Cebuano: “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: “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: “ہیل”
  • Volapük: “Hayle”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Hayle”
  • Welsh: “Hayle”
  • “Hayle”

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