Bayfield is a community in the municipality of Bluewater, Huron County in southwestern Ontario, Canada[1][2][3][4][5] with a 2016 population of 1,112.

Visitors enjoy the historic Main Street with its many well-preserved old buildings,[9] including the Little Inn which has served travelers since the 1800s, initially as a stagecoach stop.

It was named for noted Great Lakes surveyor and British naval officer Admiral Henry Wolsey Bayfield, who had personally selected the site for the community.

[13] The mouth of the Bayfield River is a natural sheltered harbour[11] and by 1869, the settlement was a port of entry and vessels touched here on their route from Detroit to Goderich.

[14] In 1869, when the population was only 125, the settlement had a wagon and plough making shop, two blacksmiths, a distiller, a brickyard and two tanneries.

[citation needed] Bayfield has the largest croquet club in North America and members compete internationally.