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Bicester Avenue Home and Garden Centre is a shopping centre in Bicester, Oxfordshire, England, that opened in May 2007, HPW Architecture Ltd were the architects and designers. [1] Some of the stores at Bicester Avenue include Bicester Avenue Garden Centre, owned by Blue Diamond Garden Centres, World of Water tropical fish shop, Lakeland and ...
Bicester Village is a designer outlet shopping centre on the outskirts of Bicester, a town in Oxfordshire, England. It is owned by Value Retail plc. [1] The centre opened in 1995. The centre is the second most visited location in the United Kingdom by Chinese tourists, after Buckingham Palace. [2]
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Bicester is one of the UK's best known Tesco-towns, operating five stores in a region with a population of 29,000. Featuring a Tesco superstore on the southern side of town, near the Bicester Village designer outlet, and a further four Tesco Express stores around the general neighbourhood and community areas.
There are several theories about the origin of the name Bicester. It may be derived from a personal name Beorna, meaning the 'Fort of the Warriors', or it may from the Latin for Bi-cester, which means 'two forts'—a Roman fortress at Alchester is 2 miles (3 km) southwest of the town, [10] [11] [12] and Chesterton village is on the course of Akeman Street, the Roman road between Watling Street ...
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The head office was based in Bicester. In an attempt to differentiate themselves in the market they positioned themselves as 'local experts' with each store's main sign bearing the town's name. To fill gaps in their product lineup many stores had concessions for Time Computers and their short-lived mobile phone arm Time Talk. There was also a ...
Marsh Gibbon is a village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England.It is close to the A41 and the border with Oxfordshire about 4 miles (6.4 km) east of Bicester.. In the centre of the village the buildings are largely built of local stone, and roofed in tiles, slate and thatch.