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 St Ives by road.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- 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.
Hayle railway station
Railway station
Photo: Geof Sheppard, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Hayle railway station serves the small town of Hayle, Cornwall, United Kingdom. Great Western Railway manage the station and operate most train services.
Lelant Saltings railway station
Railway station
Photo: Geof Sheppard, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Lelant Saltings railway station opened on 27 May 1978 to provide a park and ride facility for visitors to St Ives, Cornwall, England. It is situated on the A3074 road close to the junction with the A30 near the foot of the hill up to Lelant village.
Lelant railway station
Railway station
Photo: Geof Sheppard, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Lelant railway station is on the waterfront of the Hayle estuary below the village of Lelant in Cornwall, United Kingdom.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include St Erth and Carbis Bay.
St Erth
Photo: dennis white, CC BY-SA 3.0.
St Erth is a civil parish and village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. St Erth 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 River Hayle.
Carbis Bay
Photo: Vdemedina, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Carbis Bay is a seaside resort and village in Cornwall, England. It lies 1 mile southeast of St Ives, on the western coast of St Ives Bay, on the Atlantic coast. The South West Coast Path passes above the beach.
St Ives
Photo: Simon Burchell, CC BY-SA 4.0.
St Ives is a seaside town on the north coast of West Cornwall, near Penzance. In 2011 its population was 11,226. This fishing village grew up into a seaside resort, and has long attracted artists.
Hayle
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: West Cornwall, Cornwall, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
50.1871° or 50° 11′ 14″ northLongitude
-5.4178° or 5° 25′ 4″ westPopulation
8,210Elevation
20 feet (6 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB HAYOpen location code
9C2P5HPJ+VVOpenStreetMap ID
node 29172762OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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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”
- “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.