The Trafford Centre - The Peel Group

More than just a shopping centre

The Trafford Centre’s attractions include:

230 stores including Selfridges, John Lewis, Debenhams and Marks and Spencer.
The Orient - the centre’s leisure and dining area - is the largest of its kind in Europe with 60 restaurants, cafes and bars to cater for more than 6,000 diners.
A 20 screen cinema - one of the largest and busiest in the UK.
Leisure facilities including a state-of-the-art Laser Quest and an entertainment venue called Namco containing an 18-lane bowling alley.
10,650 free car parking spaces.

Innovations

Constantly evolving, recent improvements and innovations include:

The Great Hall, a new dining experience within The Trafford Centre. Restaurants such as Las Iguanas and Carluccio's are set under glass with a sweeping staircase and chandelier overhead.

Barton Square - a 200,000 sq ft homeware destination - which opened in 2008. Barton Square is linked to The Trafford Centre via a glazed walkway. Retailers include M&S Home, Next Home, Habitat, Laura Ashley Home and Moben Sharps Dolphin.

A 40,000 sq ft Lego Discovery Centre opened at Barton Square in 2010.

The Trafford Centre is part of a wider 550 acre site with huge development potential. This development has already begun with Trafford Quays Leisure Village which includes a Playgolf driving range, David Lloyd fitness centre, hotels and Britain’s first real snow leisure facility Chill Factore and an Airkix skydiving simulator. Trafford Quays will also encompass a 130 acre commercial and residential district.

Museum of Museums at The Trafford Centre

A breakthrough concept in cultural attractions, The Trafford Centre has brought together a wide range of heritage exhibitions from public museums and private collections to create a stimulating and unique experience.

Gaze at the 1896 FA Cup and imagine the winners of over 100 years ago holding it high in victory, see the vintage public transport that carried generations to work and play and wonder at the feat of engineering that enabled transport to transform the lives of everyday people. Find out more about The Museum of Museums here >>

The Trafford Centre - always ahead

One of the most powerful retail line ups outside Oxford Street

More than 8,000 people are employed at the Centre which has more than 1.8 million sq ft of retail space.

A tourist destination in its own right it attracts well over 30 million visitors a year.

Shoppers, film buffs, families and food lovers are among the huge numbers of people who visit The Trafford Centre on average every week.