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Highcross Leicester is a shopping centre in Leicester, England. It was opened as The Shires in 1991 to supplement the Haymarket Shopping Centre , also since re-developed. It was built on a central location within the city centre on Eastgates and High Street.
Although it is situated away from the present city centre, at the time the church was built it was at the heart of the city. In the Domesday Book it is recorded that Leicester had six churches, and it is assumed that All Saints was one of these. In 1143 it was given to Leicester Abbey. [3] The church was enlarged in about 1300 when aisles were ...
The city centre was the High Cross, at the junction of the current High Street and Highcross Street (in mediaeval times, High Street ran between the north and south gates along the line of the current Highcross Street, while the current High Street was called Swinesmarket). Leicester Cathedral [2] and the Guildhall occupy this old area of town.
Haymarket Shopping Centre. The Haymarket Shopping Centre is a shopping centre in the city centre of Leicester, England.It was opened on 4 June 1973 [2] as part of the Haymarket Centre and was the country's second shopping centre after the Bull Ring, Birmingham. [3]
Beaumont Shopping Centre has a purpose-built bus terminus that has seven stands served by a number of buses which run into and around the outskirts of Leicester. Centrebus provide services UHL (Hospital Hopper), Orbital 40 and route 154. First Leicester provide services: 14A, 25, 26, 54 and 74 which all opetate into Leicester City Centre.
This is a list of the largest shopping centres in the United Kingdom, listed by retail size in square metres (m 2). Only centres with space of 65,000 m 2 (700,000 sq ft) or more are listed. Some of these are out-of-town centres, while others are part of a city or town centre shopping district, which in almost all cases also includes many stores ...
1 Charles Street Leicester United Kingdom: Owned by: Leicester City Council: Operated by: Leicester City Council: Bus routes: 37: Bus stands: 23: Bus operators: Arriva Midlands Central Connect Centrebus First Leicester Stagecoach: Other information; Website: www.leicesterbuses.co.uk: History; Opened: 1994 (original) 2016 (redeveloped station ...
High Cross is the name given to the crossroads of the Roman roads of Watling Street (now the A5) and Fosse Way on the border between Leicestershire and Warwickshire, England.A naturally strategic high point, High Cross was "the central cross roads" of Anglo-Saxon and Roman Britain. [1]