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Whitgift Centre

The Whitgift Centre is a large shopping centre in the town centre of , opening in stages between 1968 and 1970. The centre comprises 1,302,444 sq ft of retail space, and was the largest covered shopping development in until the opening of Westfield London at in 2008.
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  • Opening hours:
    Monday—Saturday: 9:00 AM—6:30 PM
    Sunday: 11:00 AM—5:00 PM
  • Type: Shopping center
  • Description: shopping center in Croydon
  • Wheelchair access: yes

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include The Heart of Gaming and West Croydon station.

Amusement arcade
is an amusement arcade in . The arcade's most recent venue opened in 2019 on North End, . features a different pricing system to most traditional video game arcades: customers pay a flat entry fee enabling them to play on all the machines in the venue until it closes… is situated 350 feet southwest of Whitgift Centre.

Railway station
Photo: Sunil060902, CC BY-SA 3.0.
West Croydon is a multi-modal interchange station located in , . It is a southern terminus of the Windrush line of the London Overground, and is also served by National Rail services operated by Southern. is situated 1,000 feet northwest of Whitgift Centre.

Shopping center
is a shopping centre in . It is one of the largest covered retail developments in London. It is owned and managed by Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield and was opened in 2004. is situated 570 feet southwest of Whitgift Centre.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Croydon and Broad Green.

Town
Photo: Ross Burgess, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a large town in , England, 9.5 miles south of . Part of the , a local government district of ; it is one of the largest commercial districts in Greater London, with an extensive shopping area.

Suburb
Photo: Ewan Munro, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The London Borough of Croydon is a borough within . It covers an area of 87 km2 and has a population of 397,741 as of mid-2023, making it one of London's most populated boroughs.

Suburb
Photo: Noel Foster, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a suburb in the , England, 7.8 miles south-east of . Historically in , the suburb is bounded to the west and south by and and to the east and south by and .

Whitgift Centre

Latitude
51.37626° or 51° 22′ 35″ north
Longitude
-0.10032° or 0° 6′ 1″ west
Levels
3
Open location code
9C3X9VGX+GV
Open­Street­Map ID
way 162153568
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­retail
Open­Street­Map feature
shop=­mall
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­yes
Wiki­data ID
Q7996484
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In Other Languages

“Whitgift Centre” goes by many names.
  • Slovenian: “Whitgift Centre”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Whitgift Centre”. Photo: Hzh, CC BY-SA 4.0.