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Excessive avenue big with 2,600 UK shops opens new department in fairly little market city

The opening is one other increase for a market city that gives a mixture of historic buildings and impartial outlets alongside nationwide chains.

The beautiful market city has acquired a lift (Picture: Getty)

A excessive avenue big with greater than 2,600 shops throughout the UK has opened a brand new department in a reasonably little Hampshire market city. The well-known chain has relocated to an even bigger unit on the Excessive Avenue, bringing six new jobs with it. The brand new store is at 36-38 Excessive Avenue in Alton and replaces the corporate’s earlier department at 56 Excessive Avenue.

The retailer is Greggs, which has now formally opened its new and improved retailer within the city centre. The bigger area features a refreshed inside and seating for patrons. It is going to serve the total vary of Greggs favourites, together with sausage rolls, steak bakes and scorching meals. The department will open day by day from 6am to 7pm.

Greggs has relocated to an even bigger unit on the Excessive Avenue (Picture: Getty)

Gillian Lengthy, retail operations director for Greggs, stated: “We’re excited to be welcoming prospects to our new and improved store in Alton, with six new members becoming a member of the present group.

“We sit up for offering prospects with a contemporary, handy new place to expertise their Greggs favourites.”

The opening is one other increase for Alton, a reasonably market city that gives a mixture of historic buildings and impartial outlets alongside nationwide chains.

The city is well-known for its common Tuesday market, in addition to seasonal markets and festivals all year long.

The Excessive Avenue is lined with quite a lot of retailers, cafés and pubs, all inside straightforward strolling distance.

Alton City Council says: “Staying throughout the city, guests will discover quite a lot of outlets from nationwide chain shops to native impartial retailers.

“In relation to eating out and socialising, Alton provides a large alternative of cafes, eating places, bars and quintessentially English pubs to select from, all situated inside straightforward strolling distance of the city centre.

“With a lot to see and do in and round Alton, the city serves as a handy base to discover the native space.

“With so many villages inside a couple of miles of Alton, guests can take within the breathtaking views and the wealthy heritage of the area, and in addition pattern the various vary of regionally produced foods and drinks, which can be skilled on the Alton Farmers’ Market each second Saturday of the month within the Excessive Avenue.”

The Excessive Avenue is lined with quite a lot of retailers, cafés and pubs, all inside straightforward strolling distan (Picture: Getty)

There may be additionally loads of historical past on supply. The Curtis Museum holds one in all Hampshire’s most interesting native historical past collections, together with a Roman cup discovered close to Selborne and an Anglo-Saxon buckle.

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St Lawrence Church, which dates again to the eleventh century, was the location of a Civil Warfare skirmish in the course of the Battle of Alton. Bullet holes can nonetheless be seen within the west doorways.

Simply outdoors the city is Chawton, well-known as the house of Jane Austen, whereas the Watercress Line steam railway runs from Alton by way of the countryside to Alresford.

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