Edmonton Green shopping centre is a large
shopping centre
A shopping center (American English) or shopping centre ( Commonwealth English), also called a shopping complex, shopping arcade, shopping plaza or galleria, is a group of shops built together, sometimes under one roof.
The first known colle ...
in
Edmonton
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, north
London
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, which also encompasses a
market
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*Market (economics), system in which parties engage in transactions according to supply and demand
*Market economy
*Marketplace, a physical marketplace or public market
Geography
*Märket, an ...
. It is located close to
Edmonton Green railway station
Edmonton Green is a London Overground and National Rail station on the Lea Valley lines which form part of the West Anglia Main Line, located in Edmonton in the London Borough of Enfield, north London. It is down the line from London Liverpool S ...
and a large
bus station
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, on The Broadway.
Transport for london- Buses
Retrieved 9 April 2008 The centre was first opened in 1967.
History and structure
The airy South Mall leading north is sheltered by a translucent roof and lined with a mix of shops. Leading off is the library and offices on three floors which was converted from a former departmental store. In the library, memorial boards to local people, from the old Town Hall can be viewed. The Market Square is a covered area (originally open to the elements) lit by clerestory windows. The market stalls today are permanent fixtures. The big, bustling no-frills market is popular with shoppers with a good range of goods, particularly - greengrocer
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In the United ...
y.
The North Mall is treated differently, in the harder spirit of the late 1960s: a concrete coffered
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A series of these sunken panels was often used as decoration for a ceiling or a vault, also ...
roof alternates with open light-wells, and ends in an open square, with two levels of shops and two stories of flats above; brutalistic, dark brick and shuttered concrete. The backdrop rising from the deck above North Mall is composed of huge slabs of system-built flats which the borough built so keenly at the time.[Cherry.B &]Nikolaus Pevsner
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''The Buildings of England
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'' p430 London:4 North Retrieved 11 April 2008
It was redeveloped in 2008 with a new large ASDA
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supermarket.
Stores
, Edmonton Green Shopping Centre has over 100 stores, including Sports Direct
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, Deichmann and Matalan
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.
References
External links
Shopping in North London - Edmonton Green
{{Shopping centres in London
Shopping centres in the London Borough of Enfield
Retail markets in London
Tourist attractions in the London Borough of Enfield
Edmonton, London