Haywards Bay

Location
Haywards Bay is located 18 kms south west of Wollongong between the shoreline of Lake Illawarra in the east and the Princes Highway in the west, the Maquarie Rivulet in the south and Yallah in the north.

Place Names

Parish of Calderwood
County of Camden

Suburb assigned 5 August 2005.
The suburb embraces Haywards Bay in Lake Illawarra and reduces the extent of the suburb of  Yallah. Haywards Bay, a bay on Lake Illawarra north of Macquarie Rivulet, appears on Parish Map “Land District of Wollongong” 1895.
Until about 1902, a Mr. Hayward was secretary of the smelting works.  He went to South Africa to take charge of one of the Rand mines (Illawarra Historical Society, 1968 p.12) . It is most likely that the suburb of Haywards Bay is named after this Mr Hayward. Mr Hayward appears on the 1901 electoral roll as an “accountant” who gives  his address as “Lakelands”.  Lakelands was  formerly owned by the Illawarra Harbour and Land Corporation.