Hayle

Hayle is a small city, civil parish and cargo port in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is located at the mouth of the Hayle River and is approximately seven miles northeast of Penzance. Hayle parish was created in 1888 from part of the now defunct Phillack parish, with which it changed into later mixed in 1935, and incorporated a part of St Erth in 1937. The modern-day parish stocks barriers with St Ives to the west, St Erth to the south, Gwinear and Gwithian in the east, and is bounded to the north via the Celtic Sea.

Although there is an extended records of settlement within the Hayle Estuary location dating from the Bronze Age, the contemporary city of Hayle became built predominantly in the course of the 18th century commercial revolution. Evidence of Iron Age agreement exists on the fort at the hill above Carnsew Pool in which the Plantation now stands. It is notion that Hayle, was an vital centre for the neolithic tin enterprise, trading now not only Irish and Breton human beings, however additionally the Phoenicians of the eastern Mediterranean. Evidence of this comes from finds of imported pottery which includes Romano/Grecian Amphorae - boxes for wine and oil.