Hayes

Worth seeing in and around Hayes

6 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

1. 01
   Brunel University London

   Brunel University of London is a public research university located in the Uxbridge area of London, England. It is named after Isambard Kingdom Brunel, a Victorian engineer and pioneer of the Industrial Revolution.

   3.9 km · university in London, UK · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Osterley House

   Osterley Park is a Georgian country estate in west London, which straddles the London boroughs of Ealing and Hounslow. Originally dating from the 1570s, the estate contains a number of Grade I and II listed buildings, with the park listed as Grade II*.

   5.8 km · historic house museum in London · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Polish Air Force Memorial

   The Polish Air Force Memorial is a war memorial in West London, England in memory of airmen from Poland who served in the Royal Air Force as part of the Polish contribution to World War II. Over 18,000 men and women served in the Polish squadrons of the RAF during the war, and over 2,000 died. The memorial marks the southern extremity of South Ruislip in the London Borough of Hillingdon, near RAF Northolt, where seven Polish-manned fighter squadrons were based at different times in the war.

   4 km · war memorial in South Ruislip, London Borough of Hillingdon, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Open Air Theatre, Barra Hall Park

   The Open Air Theatre, Barra Hall Park in Hayes, West London, England, is a purpose-built outdoor theatre with concrete-step seating for up to 180 people. Originally built in 1951, the structure fell into disrepair and was rebuilt in steel in 2005.

   300 m · open-air theatre in Barra Hall Park, Hayes, London, England · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Paddington Arm

   The Paddington Canal or Paddington Arm of the Grand Union Canal is a 13+1⁄2-mile canal from Bull's Bridge in Hayes, west London, to Paddington in central London, England. Little Venice — its only junction — is with the Regent's Canal to the North, and Limehouse Basin to the east.

   2.1 km · main branch of the Grand Union Canal that leads to Paddington Basin, London, UK · Wikipedia
6. 06
   London Motorcycle Museum

   London Motorcycle Museum displayed a range of over 150 classic and British motorcycles. It closed in October 2019, partly due to inability to meet the running costs.

   5.1 km · transport museum in Middlesex, England · Wikipedia

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Getting to Hayes

Airports

London Heathrow (LHR), 6 km · London Luton (LTN), 40 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 44 km

Stations

London Heathrow Airport, 5 km · British Airways Flight 38, 5.7 km · Heathrow Terminals 2 & 3 tube station, 5.4 km · Hatton Cross tube station, 5.4 km · Hounslow West tube station, 5.4 km

• London → Hayes

  21 km · quickest by road, 56 min · £2.5–3
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• Luton, Luton → Hayes

  40 km · quickest by road, 1h 7m · £5–7
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• London, Essex → Hayes

  21 km · quickest by road, 56 min · £2.5–3
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No local-transport research exists yet for Hayes

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Hayes. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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