The Trafford Centre is a large indoor shopping centre located in Trafford in Greater Manchester, England.

It has 118,766 square meters (1.2m square feet) of retail space and attracts 29 million visits annually. It is made up of 4 main areas: Peel Avenue, Regent Crescent, The Dome and The Orient. The centre is owned by the Peel Holdings.Trafford Centre

The centre was designed so that visitors enter on both of the two main shopping floors in equal numbers [1].
This helps avoid the problem suffered by other centers, such as the Metro Centre, where visitors do not go to upper floors meaning that many big retailers avoid upper floor units.
The Dome

The Dome is in the middle of the centre and is home to more up market stores such as the first Selfridges outside of London.
Regent Crescent is the area where most of the high end designer stores are situated like Karen Millen, Jane Norman, Gap and Mexx.

It is home to two bookshops as well as Water stones and Borders and it is also home to two department stores BHS and Debenhams which is at the end of Regent Crescent

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St James’s Park’s is at the very heart of London and covers 23 hectares (58 acres). It is the oldest Royal Park in London and is surrounded by three palaces.

St James’s Park is bounded by The Mall to the north, Horse Guards to the east, and Birdcage Walk to the south. The park has a small lake, St James’s Park Lake, with two islands, Duck Island (named for the lake’s collection of waterfowl), and West Island.St James Park

A bridge across the lake affords a westward view of Buckingham Palace framed by trees and fountains,

and a view of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, similarly framed, to the east.Opening hours:
The park is open from 5am to midnight all year round. There are no parking facilities.

Contact:
The St James’s Park Office,
The Storeyard, Horse Guards Road,
St James’s Park, London. SW1A 2BJ
Tel. +44 (0)20 7930 1793
Fax. +44 (0)20 7839 7639

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