Bethayres, Pennsylvania

Bethayres is an unincorporated community in Lower Moreland Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States.

[1] Bethayres has a station on the SEPTA West Trenton Regional Rail line, providing access to Philadelphia and New Jersey.

Elizabeth Ayres, a local woman, had a son who worked for Reading Railroad.

Until the name was changed to solely Huntingdon Valley Post Office, Huntingdon Valley-Bethayres was the longest postal name in the United States.

On January 3, 1989, the community made headlines when Bucks County resident Glen Alton Barhight stole a SEPTA bus, and began a series of events which resulted in the injury of 15 people, the damage or destruction of 15 cars, and a police chase through five municipalities which ended when the bus crashed into a tree in Bethayres.