Haywards is the location in Wellington, New Zealand, where the North Island's static inverter plant of the HVDC Inter-Island transmission line is located. Suburbs and towns near Haywards include Belmont, Judgeford, Silverstream, Trentham and Taita.
State Highway 58, which provides the primary route from the Hutt Valley to Pauatahanui and Porirua, leaves State Highway 2 at this point. This highway was first built during the 1870s.[1]