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 St Erth railway station and Hayle railway station.

Railway station
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is a Grade II listed station situated at in , United Kingdom. It serves the nearby village of , which is about 0.75 miles away, and is the junction for the St Ives Bay Line to .

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

Railway station
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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.

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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 .

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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.

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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
50.1836° or 50° 11′ 1″ north
Longitude
-5.4207° or 5° 25′ 15″ west
Population
8,210
Elevation
20 feet (6 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB HAY
Open location code
9C2P5HMH+CP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 29172762
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2647258
Wiki­data ID
Q1010221
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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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