Hayes is a town in the London Borough of Hillingdon. It is a suburban development situated 13 miles (20.9 km) west of Charing Cross.
Hayes was developed in the late 19th and 20th centuries as an industrial locality to which residential districts were later added to house those who worked in the nearby factories. Its development is typical of that of what is sometimes called the second industrial revolution – the creation of new light engineering industries on the edge of existing cities.
Its name came from Anglo-Saxon Hǣs or Hǣse = “(land overgrown with) brushwood”
