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

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.
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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.
- 01GNS 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 - 02Trentham 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 - 03Hutt 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 - 04Christ 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 - 05Dowse 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 - 06Trentham 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 - 07Maidstone 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 - 08St 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 - 09St 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 - 10Vogel 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
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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 → Haywards328 km · quickest by air, 4h 47m · NZ$170–270
- Auckland → Haywards479 km · quickest by air, 5h 30m · NZ$210–320
- Queenstown → HaywardsTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
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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.
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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