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Orchards Shopping Centre
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Orchards Shopping Centre

Area Guides: Dartford
Attractions:

Shopping

Telephone - please mention Let's Stay Kent: 01322 289383
Email: Click here to email Orchards Shopping Centre
Website: http://www.orchardsdartford.co.uk/index.php


Details: Welcome.....to the Orchards Shopping Centre - situated in the heart of Dartford Town Centre. You will find thirty-six quality retailers all under one roof, barrow traders, parking for 500 cars, a crèche and a coffee shop - in fact, everything you could possibly need.

We have a full events diary ranging from face painting to dance tuition, children's fun days to craft exhibitions and musical events to magic shows.

In addition, we offer promotional mall trading space - again a popular feature which allows traders to take advantage of our location and high footfall to sell their goods. You can find us just off the M25/A2, or alternatively, if you don't wish to bring your car into town, we are just a couple of hundred yards from the British Rail Station.

Store guide
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Opening hours
Saturday: 9am - 5.30pm
Sunday: Closed

Opening hours for Waitrose
Monday - Friday: 8.30am - 8pm
Saturday: 8.30am - 7pm
Sunday: 10am - 4pm (every Sunday)

Coffee shop
BB’s have fast become a welcome site in many select shopping centres. With a wide range of hot and cold snacks and beverages you can be assured that your visit will make your shopping experience complete!

Creche
Chuckles offers pre-school (Ofsted approved) places Monday to Friday 09.15 - 11.45. Parent & Toddler sessions/school holiday club, birthday parties.
Location: Off North Mall - Unit 11a is located between shop mall and the lover level carpark, accessed via the stairs or lift.
Telephone: 01322 291151

About us
The Orchards Shopping Centre was developed by the Burton Property Trust, and opened on the 28th September 1989 by Councillor Thurlow.

The centre is 110,000 square feet and comprises thirty-six units, a multi storey car park for 252 vehicles and a surface car park for additional vehicles. We welcome just over 92,000 visitors per week - approximately 4.8 million per year.

Dartford is a market town with a population of 86,000 and a catchment population of 516,000 within ten miles of the shopping centre.

The owner of the shopping centre, since, 1992, is Freshwater and the managing agent is GVA Grimley.

How to find us
By Rail
On leaving Dartford Rail Station walk straight ahead and over the footbridge. At the bottom of the staircase proceed past both the Orchards Theatre and the Clock Tower and into the double glass doors. The Management suite is staight ahead.

By Road - M25 clockwise
After driving over the Queen Elizabeth II Bridge, take the first exit after the tollbooths. Stay in the right hand lane and turn right at the lights on the roundabout into Cotton Lane. Proceed along Cotton Lane to the traffic lights. Turn right into London Road. Continue until the first roundabout, go straight across and along to mini roundabout. Go straight across here and down East Hill to the traffic lights at the bottom. Turn right along Home Gardens keeping in the left hand lane. Turn sharp left at the next roundabout - this will bring you into the shopping centre - continue up ramp into the multi storey car park.

By Road - M25 clockwise
Leave the M25 at junction 2. Follow slip road to traffic light. Keeping in the left hand lane proceed straight ahead, taking the first exit on the left (A282). Keep in the left hand lane and drive to the traffic lights at the top of the hill. Turn left at the lights to the next roundabout. Turn right into Park Road. At the end of this road turn left onto East Hill, At the traffic lights at the bottom of East Hill turn right into Home Gardens, keeping in the left hand lane. At the roundabout, turn sharp left - this will bring you into the shopping centre - continue up the ramp into the multi-storey car park.

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