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Haywards

Haywards is a small hillside suburb in the Hutt Valley near Wellington, New Zealand.

Haywards
Haywards · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Haywards is a small hillside suburb in the Hutt Valley near Wellington, New Zealand. It is notable for its large electrical substation, which is the main switching point for the Wellington region, and the home of the North Island converter station for the HVDC Inter-Island, which links the North and South Island electricity networks together.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Haywards

10 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
    GNS Science

    GNS Science, officially registered as the Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences Limited, is a New Zealand Crown Research Institute. It focuses on geology, geophysics, and nuclear science.

    6.4 km · New Zealand research institute · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Trentham Racecourse

    Trentham Racecourse is the main thoroughbred horse racecourse for the Wellington city area in New Zealand. It is located in the suburb of Trentham in Upper Hutt, next to Trentham Military Camp.

    5.4 km · main thoroughbred horse racecourse for the Wellington city area in New Zealand · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Hutt Recreation Ground

    The Hutt Recreation Ground is a football, cricket, athletics and rugby union ground in Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand. The grounds are owned by the Hutt City Council and managed for them by Downer.

    9.6 km · Sports ground in Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Christ Church, Taitā

    Christ Church is a heritage-listed Anglican church located in Taitā, Lower Hutt in the Wellington region of New Zealand. The church is the oldest surviving church in the Wellington region.

    4 km · oldest surviving church in the Wellington region · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Dowse Art Museum

    The Dowse Art Museum is a municipal art gallery in Lower Hutt, New Zealand. Opened in 1971 in the Lower Hutt CBD, the Dowse occupies a stand-alone building adjacent to other municipal facilities.

    9.3 km · Lower Hutt art museum · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Trentham Memorial Park

    Trentham Memorial Park is a large park and a major sport and recreation ground in Trentham, a suburb of Upper Hutt, in the Wellington region of New Zealand. The park was purchased by the Upper Hutt Council from the Barton family in the 1950s as Upper Hutt's Second World War memorial and covers an area of 48 hectares.

    4.6 km · park in Upper Hutt, New Zealand · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Maidstone Park

    Maidstone Park is a sports and recreation park located close to the centre of Upper Hutt in the Wellington Region of the North Island of New Zealand.

    8.6 km · Sports and recreation park in Upper Hutt, New Zealand · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    St John's Anglican Church

    St John's Church is a heritage-listed Anglican church located at 563 Fergusson Drive, Trentham, Upper Hutt, New Zealand. The church is one of the oldest surviving Anglican churches in the Wellington region.

    5.9 km · church in Trentham, Upper Hutt, New Zealand · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    St Alban's Church, Pauatahanui

    St Alban's Church is an heritage-listed Anglican church located in Pāuatahanui, Porirua, New Zealand.

    6.9 km · church building in Wellington Region, New Zealand · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Vogel House

    Vogel House at 75 Woburn Road, Lower Hutt, New Zealand, is a neo-Georgian-style home built in 1933. For 13 years, it was the official residence of the Prime Minister of New Zealand, and it housed multiple other ministers and dignitaries.

    9.6 km · historic building in Lower Hutt, New Zealand · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Haywards

Airports
Wellington (WLG), 24 km
Stations
Upper Hutt railway station, 8.1 km · Waterloo railway station, 8.6 km · Heretaunga railway station, 4 km · Trentham railway station, 5.2 km · Wallaceville railway station, 7 km
  • Christchurch → Haywards
    328 km · quickest by air, 4h 47m · NZ$170–270
  • Auckland → Haywards
    479 km · quickest by air, 5h 30m · NZ$210–320
  • Queenstown → Haywards
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • From anywhere
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Haywards

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 Haywards. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    695 km
  2. 02
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    2,283 km
  3. 03
    K'gari (formerly Fraser Island)AU

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    2,683 km
  4. 04
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    3,313 km
  5. 05
    AitutakiCK

    8 ways of moving, 30 sources

    3,446 km

If you know how people move in Haywards – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Haywards

Haywards is 23 km from Wellington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Lower Huttcity in the Wellington Region of New Zealand9.1 km
  • Upper Huttcity in Wellington Region, New Zealand6.2 km
  • Pāuatahanuisuburb of Porirua, New Zealand7.2 km
  • Judgefordsuburb in the Wellington Region, New Zealand4.8 km
  • Heretaungasuburb of Upper Hutt, New Zealand3.5 km
  • Avalonsuburb of Lower Hutt, New Zealand5.8 km