Bluewater Shopping Centre, Dartford

Name: Bluewater Shopping Centre
Address: Dartford, United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 370 192 5074

#1 among attractions in Dartford

Shopping, Shopping centre

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Facts and practical information

Bluewater Shopping Centre is an out-of-town shopping centre in Stone, Kent, England, outside the M25 motorway, 17.8 miles east south east of London's centre. Opened on 16 March 1999 in a former chalk quarry after ten years of building works, the site occupies 240 acres and has a sales floor area of 154,000 m² over three levels, making it the fifth-largest shopping centre in the UK. Elsewhere in Europe only Istanbul's Cevahir Mall and Vienna's Shopping City Süd are bigger. The floor plan is a triangular shape with 330 stores, including 3 anchors, 40 cafés and restaurants, and a 17-screen cinema. The centre employs 7,000 people and serves over 27 million visitors a year. A main rival is the Lakeside Shopping Centre and its two retail parks in West Thurrock, Essex, just across the River Thames, 8 miles away by road or 3.2 miles as the crow flies. ()

Alternative names: Stores: 330Coordinates: 51°26'20"N, 0°16'16"E

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StoneDartford United Kingdom

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+44 370 192 5074

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Day trips

Bluewater Shopping Centre – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Ingress Abbey, Beacon Wood Country Park, Darenth Country Park, Greenhithe.

1.2 miNE
Forts and castles
Ingress Abbey
31 min walk • Ingress Abbey was a Neo-gothic Jacobean-style country house in Greenhithe, Kent, England. It was built on the Ingress Estate, owned by the Viscount Duncannon in the 18th century and after having been passed on among many owners the buildings were demolished in 1820.
1.4 miSE
Nature and wildlife, Park, Forest
Beacon Wood Country Park, Dartford
37 min walk • Beacon Wood Country Park is a public woodland in Bean near Dartford, in Kent, England. It was previously an industrial claypit then re-claimed as woodland park open to the public, currently owned by Lafarge.
1 miSW
Park
Darenth Country Park, Dartford
25 min walk • Darenth Country Park is in Darenth near Dartford, in Kent, England. On the site of a former demolished hospital site Darenth Park Hospital, also the site of a scheduled ancient monument and the site of ancient Saxon burials.
~270 ftNW
Village
Greenhithe
2 min walk • Greenhithe is a town in the Borough of Dartford in Kent, England, and the civil parish of Swanscombe and Greenhithe. It is located 3+1⁄2 miles east of Dartford and 4+1⁄2 miles west of Gravesend.
1.3 miE
Park
Swanscombe Heritage Park, Northfleet
33 min walk • Swanscombe Skull Site or Swanscombe Heritage Park is a 3.9 hectares geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Swanscombe in north-west Kent, England. It contains two Geological Conservation Review sites and a National Nature Reserve. The park lies in a former gravel quarry, Barnfield Pit.
0.4 miNE
Forts and castles
Stone Castle
11 min walk • Stone Castle is a castle at Stone, near Bluewater in Kent, England. It was built between 1135 and 1140 on the site where William the Conqueror signed a treaty with the men of Kent in 1067.
1.2 miE
Archaeological site
Ebbsfleet Valley, Northfleet
30 min walk • Ebbsfleet Valley is a new town and redevelopment area in Kent, South East England, and part of the Thames Gateway, southwest of Gravesend. Development is coordinated by the Ebbsfleet Development Corporation. It is named after the valley of the Ebbsfleet River, which it straddles.