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Shopping in Cookstown
Shopping in Cookstown
Without a doubt, Cookstown is the place for shopping. It has an abundance of high street names and brands side by side with local retailers. There are also two superstores in the town, ASDA and TESCO. The town also has various retail plazas and parks,
Station Square Retail Park, including ARGOS EXTRA, CARPET RIGHT, LIDL and HARRY CORRY, along with the fabulous Paragon Chinese Restaurant
Gortalowry Retail Park beside ASDA, TURKINGTONS and TILE MARKET are the first to set up store here
Broadfields Retail Park, Tesco, Homebase, Next, Tempest, New Look and Peacocks are the first batch of 10 new retailers to set up here. Marks and Spencer SIMPLY FOOD and Cafe Revive are also now open on this site with many more to come. The newest part of the reatil park has opened with Halfords and B & M discount store the first to enter.
Molesworth Place Shopping Centre, this shopping centre is a vibrant glass fronted building built on the former market yard site. Heaton and Sports direct are the first to enter this the newest of Cookstowns retail parks.
It is impossible to forget about the main street, hundreds of shops line 2km of the town. Many high street names such as InterSport, Boots, DV8, Subway, O'Briens, Heatons, GINO/nv, Menarys, Birthdays, Thomas Cook, Tom Morrow... well the list goes on, these shops are dotted throughout the street alongside the independent retailers, giving shoppers in Cookstown the Best of Both Worlds!
The town also comes alive during Saturdays when the famous shopping market is held in the town. The market was established by Royal Patent of Charles I in 1628. This is one of the main shopping attractions in Cookstown as it is one of the few towns left in Northern Ireland to still hold a weekly market of this scale. There is always plenty of entertainment with jugglers, face painting, ballons and other free shows organised by Cookstown District Council to revitalise the market.
Cookstown is growing very fast, with major plans in place to improve the visitors experience, of course there really is no need because there is plenty of things to do at the minute! The town currently has its own advertising campaign to aid the town with its ambition to become "The Capital of Mid-Ulster" by 2012.
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