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HayleHayle (Cornish: Heyl) is a small town in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is at the southern end of St Ives Bay, on the estuary of the Hayle River. Its name derives from the Cornish heyl, estuary. Formerly it was important as a fishing town and as a transshipment port for tin and other industrial products. It was an industrial base itself, home to copper smelters (the eastern district of the town is called Copperhouse) and an iron foundry, whose remains can still be seen today. By the nineteenth century, it had become more economic to transport ore out of Cornwall than to smelt it in Hayle, and the port went into decline. Problems with silting and the need for dredging sped its end, and by the 1970s it had ceased to be used. The town is now primarily a holiday destination. Its beaches stretch for three miles around the bay. A famous landmark is Godrevy lighthouse, said to have inspired Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse.
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