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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There are many interesting places to visit. You can go to any of the local sightseeing places that are all located nearby.

The first is the Coastguard Lookout Tower that was built in 1907. It was a Marconi listening post in both World Wars and is now a private residence. It is located on the cliffs at St Edmund’s Point. The Golden Lion Hotel is another place of interest hat was opened in 1846 and originally had the name The New Inn. It is located in The Green, Hunstanton and was the first building. Cross on the Green ism though to be brought from the green in the nearby village of Old Hunstanton at the time when the Golden Lion Hotel was built. It may once have been the old village cross from Snettisham.

The Flood Memorial is the place where 31 people died in the east coast floods of 1953. The deaths occurred in South Beach Road, Hunstanton to the south of the fairground. The Lighthouse was built in 1840 and ceased operations in 1922 since then it has been a private residence. A lighthouse has been on the site since 1665, and the world’s first parabolic reflector was built there in 1776It is located on the cliffs at St Edmund’s Point. The Shipwreck was built in 1907, at first it was a trawler, but was later moored on the Lincolnshire side of the Wash to be used as a target ship. In 1947 she broke free from her mooring in a gale and drifted on to the beach at Hunstanton. St Edmund’s Chapel is now in ruins was built in 1272 in memory of St Edmund who landed at Hunstanton in 855 to be crowned King of East Anglia. It is located on the cliffs at St Edmund’s Point.

The St Edmund’s Church was built in 1866 and is dedicated to Edmund. The church contains nine windows depicting his life and it is located in Church Street, Hunstanton. St Mary’s Church was built in the 14th century in Old Hunstanton and restored in the 19th century. It has a Norman font and a roof made from oaks grown on the nearby Le Strange estate. It is located in Church Road, Old Hunstanton.

The Town Hall was built in 1896 and the Hunstanton town council meets on the first floor, while the Tourist Information Centre occupies the ground floor. The hall at the back holds antique and craft fairs, and other social events.

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